Ray Fearon Quotes

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

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.

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.

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

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

Actors get bored.

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.

To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

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

I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.

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

The only thing an actor can do is, whatever lands on the carpet in the hall, you read it, and if you can't put it down, that's the job to do.

When I am doing a role, I don't think that I am getting to wear a mini skirt or show my stomach. I am doing a role because I am an actor.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I'm not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.

I always know my lines.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

Acting was always my first passion.

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.