I Know I'm Not Some Matinee Idol,

Improvisation, The Main Thing Is It Teaches You To Be In The Moment And Present In The Moment And Be Reactive And Proactive For What's Going On. Someone Gives You Something - A Lot Of Actors Are A Little Shut Off, So They're Just Doing, "this Is My Character, These Are My Lines, I'm Going To Just Send It To You Then You Send Whatever You're Sending." Improvisation Teaches You To Really Be Listening.

Somehow That Doesn't Feel Like A Natural Human Thing To Do, To Go To Those Dark Places, You Have To Kind Of Force Yourself To Do That. And Comedy, It's Like You're Excited To Get There In The Morning Every Day.

For A While I Had A Blues Band In L.a., But I Realized I Was Too Optimistic To Play The Blues. I Did Not Have The Misery In My Heart That The Blues Required.

A Lot Of Times, Good Improv Is When Both People, Or However Many People Are In The Scene, Really Have No Idea What The Next Thing You're Going To Say Is.

I End Up Improvising In Almost Everything To Some Degree, 'cause It's Often Necessary On Movies. The Script Is One Thing, And It's This Kind Of Theory Of What You're Going To Do, And Then You Get There On The Day And You Realize, "oh, The Script Is Not Appropriate To This Room, The Door's Over Here."