Merritt Wever Quotes

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

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

Learn your lines so well that you never have to worry about them.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say 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.

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

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.

Actors get bored.

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.

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

I learn the lines and pray to God.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

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

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

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

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

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.