Kate Jackson Quotes

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

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

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.

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.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Actors get bored.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

I just love acting.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

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

I always had an actor within me.

Acting is very immediate.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

I always know my lines.

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.