In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.

If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.