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

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

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

There are people who prefer to say ‘Yes’, and there are people who prefer to say ‘No’. Those who say ‘Yes’ are rewarded by the adventures they have, and those who say ‘No’ are rewarded by the safety they attain.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

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

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.