Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

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

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.

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

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.