Travis Fimmel Quotes

I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

I always know my lines.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

I really struggle to fight and say lines at the same time. It's hard.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

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

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.