Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.

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

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

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.

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.

Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.

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.