Keith Johnstone Impro Quotes & Sayings

What you felt, the beast that swallowed you all and spat you back out, that is the great big bloody point of all this. If you learn nothing else from this bizarre and awkward experience--this gathering of strangers to blow into horns and pluck catgut--remember that you have the power to feel that. The power to create that. With your hands. Your breath. You are gods, children, and you can make war. — Kate Racculia

people say crazy things — Adele

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue. — Olive Schreiner

It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork. — Aldus Manutius

In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration. — Tegla Loroupe

There isn't any way to libel the human race. — Mark Twain

Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment. — Nancee Cain

I remember that just as I was about to cross the border they asked me what I had to declare and, like an idiot, I answered: I want to declare that I am a traitor to the human race. — Henry Miller

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame. — Alain De Botton

Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you. — Keith Johnstone

Seeking answers to questions is what draws us forward. When you have no more questions you live in the satisfaction of the present moment. You have no more questions when you finally learn that love is the answer. Love is always the answer. — Kate McGahan