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Top 25 Keith Johnstone Quotes (2024 Update)

Keith Johnstone Quote: “None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.”

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

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Keith Johnstone Quote: “Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.”

2. “Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.”

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

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.”

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

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made – which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.”

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

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.”

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

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Keith Johnstone Quote: “The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.”

8. “The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.”

9. “Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.”

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Keith Johnstone Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.”

11. “Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “If it weren’t for fear, I wouldn’t have to teach you a damn thing.”

12. “If it weren’t for fear, I wouldn’t have to teach you a damn thing.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting his first thoughts.”

13. “An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting his first thoughts.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “Don’t come on to be funny – come on to solve problems.”

14. “Don’t come on to be funny – come on to solve problems.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “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. Those who say ‘no’ are rewarded by the safety they attain.”

16. “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. Those who say ‘no’ are rewarded by the safety they attain.”

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Keith Johnstone Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Keith Johnstone Quote: “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 isn’t better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.”

18. “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 isn’t better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “Every time you go the way the audience expects, they’ll think you’re original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.”

19. “Every time you go the way the audience expects, they’ll think you’re original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “Those who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have.”

20. “Those who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “What a person is afraid to do, he does while possessed.”

21. “What a person is afraid to do, he does while possessed.”

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Keith Johnstone Quote: “An audience will remain interested if the story is advancing in some sort of organised manner, but they want to see routines interrupted, and the action continuing between the actors.”

22. “An audience will remain interested if the story is advancing in some sort of organised manner, but they want to see routines interrupted, and the action continuing between the actors.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.”

23. “My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “My feeling is that sanity is actually a pretence, a way we learn to behave. We keep this pretence up because we don’t want to be rejected by other people – and being classified insane is to be shut out of the group in a very complete way.”

24. “My feeling is that sanity is actually a pretence, a way we learn to behave. We keep this pretence up because we don’t want to be rejected by other people – and being classified insane is to be shut out of the group in a very complete way.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “My ‘failure’ was a survival tactic, and without it I would probably never have worked my way out of the trap that my education had set for me. I would have ended up with a lot more of my consciousness blocked off from me than now.”

25. “My ‘failure’ was a survival tactic, and without it I would probably never have worked my way out of the trap that my education had set for me. I would have ended up with a lot more of my consciousness blocked off from me than now.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “Almost all were total failures-they couldn’t have been put on in the village hall for the author’s friends. It wasn’t a matter of lack of talent, but of miseducation. The authors of the pseudo-plays assumed that writing should be based on other writing, not on life. My play had been influenced by Beckett, but at least the content had been mine.”

26. “Almost all were total failures-they couldn’t have been put on in the village hall for the author’s friends. It wasn’t a matter of lack of talent, but of miseducation. The authors of the pseudo-plays assumed that writing should be based on other writing, not on life. My play had been influenced by Beckett, but at least the content had been mine.”

— Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone Quote: “It was largely my interest in art that had destroyed any life in the world around me. I’d learned perspective, and about balance, and composition. It was as if I’d learned to redesign everything, to reshape it so I saw what OUGHT to be there, which of course is much inferior to what IS there. The dullness was not an inevitable consequence of age, but of education.”

27. “It was largely my interest in art that had destroyed any life in the world around me. I’d learned perspective, and about balance, and composition. It was as if I’d learned to redesign everything, to reshape it so I saw what OUGHT to be there, which of course is much inferior to what IS there. The dullness was not an inevitable consequence of age, but of education.”

— Keith Johnstone

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