You can sort of trick people into being really good. Even if they didn't know anything..

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, ….

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

Wherever you go it's the same fear. And the same protective devices. There is one big error I think and partly my fault which is that a lot of things….

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

In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down….

Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything..

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff..

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..

As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thou….

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'.….

I left my theatre the Loose Moose almost twenty years ago, and I hardly ever go back. Sometimes I go back to do a Mask class. They're doing more of t….

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

I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv i….

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it..

At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should ….

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

In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try ….

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up..

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

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