Candice Patton Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

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

I used to learn my lines on the toilet, in the car, at dinner.

I'm so OCD about prep work and learning lines and stuff.

Film is a lot different. You have the whole script in its entirety, and you have a couple of weeks to learn different scenes, really go over them and rehearse them so when you get to them they're more fleshed out. But TV shows are harder.

The only set thing I do is that I really, really memorize the lines. I've gotta be so comfortable with the words.

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.

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

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

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

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.

I learn the lines and pray to God.

I'm good with a script.

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

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

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

There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.