Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.
I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.
