Ad Lib

I knew that these were new, and I was delighted when Lauren Sharpe made reference to this surprise later on in a section of ad-lib for "Bound East for Cardiff" by saying "They made baby shark hands, they really got me." ❋ Bess Rowen (2012)

As Gordon declared at the beginning of each program, this show had "no teleprompters, no cue-cards, no idiot boards, no re-runs; just plain, ad-lib conversation in which we try to tell it like it really is..." ❋ Thomas Gladysz (2011)

I start each day with an ad-lib full-facial and then I go out nicking cars. ❋ Penny Goring (2011)

When Fred refused to change the script to accommodate me, or even to allow me to rewrite it, the director said that I could ad-lib some lines that were not as sexually debasing as what was on the page in a scene with the actor who was portraying my husband, the amazing Mr. Gary Busey. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

That Ed Miliband: if only he didn't look a nerd; if only he learnt to ad-lib better at PMQs, Labour would be in better nick. ❋ Unknown (2012)

There was always room to ad-lib lines with the court and each other, but we all knew where we were going, and what was supposed to happen on the field. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He gets a lot of the best lines - there is one about confusing the anti-matter blob by letting it watch television which must surely have been an ad-lib. ❋ Nwhyte (2009)

"His opening ad-lib quieting thunderous applause - 'It's still just me' - should be an instructional moment in public behavior in our celebrity culture." ❋ Jennifer Rubin (2011)

He holds first place in the best ad-lib ever at Ashland (in Two Gentlemen of Verona). ❋ Joshenglish (2009)

Gary, thinking he was free of the confines of the script, did not really understand what “ad-lib some character lines” meant, and in every take he portrayed a different character altogether, including a six-year-old child. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

What I'd love is to find out that his line was a complete ad-lib that Robbins didn't know was coming. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The seer's attention skips here and there and often stumbles into an uncensored ad-lib. ❋ Gabriel Orgrease (2012)

He tried his trademark joking, sputtering an ad-lib about eating too much barbecue but his head bobbed under the strain, and his thin neck muscles stretched and strained in the light. ❋ Steve Anderson (2011)

Nick Reid, the Mississippi-delta repo-man hero of Rick Gavin's first book, "Ranchero," would never be mistaken for the archetypal PI, but he fulfills assignments with all the ad-lib panache of Robert Parker's Spenser or Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)

However, his controlled ad-lib manner was just what station KFBK in Sacramento, Calif., was looking for in 1984 to replace the outgoing Morton Downey, Jr., who exhibited a wild and often offensive style. ❋ Unknown (2010)