I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

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

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

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

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

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.

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.

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.

To ask when the kingdom of God will come is to be religious

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.