The timid star tended to become more secure and give a better performance with each additional take, while her costars often lost their edge and spontaneity as the number of retakes increased.

I fight not to lose spontaneity.

As an obvious, self-conscious campy period piece, it loses spontaneity, believability and point.

The Baltimore Sun also noted that "Gaia never loses his playfulness or spontaneity," and hailed his "evolution into pieces that connect deeply to a defined city area.

One issue that seemed to infuse the discussion: a once vital acting system or technique, when passed from generation to generation through repetition, inevitably loses spontaneity and vitality.

He has been criticized for taking excessive care to depict clean and bright surfaces, to render excessive detail, and thus to lose life and spontaneity.

Lumet was a strong believer in rehearsal, and felt that if you rehearse correctly the actor will not lose spontaneity.

I was losing spontaneity over the years.

AV Club reviewer Noel Murray wrote: "Ketcham also experimented with his line a little early on, tightening and thickening without losing the looseness and spontaneity that remains the strip's best aspect even now."

American singer Kenny Rogers once noted that as you grow older you gain wisdom, but you lose spontaneity.