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.

-John C. Reilly

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Improvisation, The Main Thing Is It Teaches

John C. Reilly

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.

Topic

Character

Giving

Listening

I Was More Like A Middle Child. My Youngest Brother Was The Baby, So He Got All The Attention That The Baby Gets. And My Older Brothers Were Getting Into So Much Trouble That I Was Left In The Middle, Doing Plays. I Was Up To No Good, But My Mother Didn't Know It!

Mother

Baby

Brother