I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.

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

The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.

My feeling is the moment the theatre is not full you have to do something else. But most people somehow think 'If we did it better, they would come'. No. They don't come.

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

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