Ray Fearon Quotes

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

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

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

Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

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

It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.

I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.

We go to the opening arguments or the closing arguments of a case, and we'd see which actor got the big one. I had a seven-page one once which just about killed me, and I thought, 'Oh, I'm going to get fired, that's it, I can't do it.' It was like a one-act play, and I had a few weeks to learn it, luckily. But it's terrifying.

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.

I'm not a very good actor.

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

I'm really bad at memorizing, so that's one of my big struggles in an audition setting, with the lines.

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.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.

I learn my lines in a few different ways. A lot of my dialogue sticks with me in a general sort of way when I read the entire script for the first or second time. Then, when I get the shooting schedule, I have a better idea of what scenes are shooting when. I then will focus on those that are coming up first.

For me, performing isn't really particularly difficult.