Mircea Monroe Quotes

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

I think the first table read I ever did, my hand was vibrating the whole time.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

Acting scares me.

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

While I'm acting, I'm a professional, and then I don't break into cold sweat for whatsoever reason.

You should know that there are heroes here who are unduly worried about each role they portray.

To play anybody real and famous is very scary.

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.

Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.