Todd Haynes Quotes

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I love to prepare for my roles.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

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 think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

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 think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.

I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.

People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'

I rehearse my script with my co-actors and take their tips quite seriously.

Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.

You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

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

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.