Alex Borstein 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'm always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.

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

I had to learn a lot on 'Victorious' because I had never done multi-camera before. It's like music: You need to be on it, and there's no room for subtleties.

Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously.

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

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

I learn my lines in a few different ways. A lot of my dialogue sticks with me in a general sort of way when I read the entire script for the first or second time. Then, when I get the shooting schedule, I have a better idea of what scenes are shooting when. I then will focus on those that are coming up first.

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

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

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

Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

I always know my lines.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no.

A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

I'd love to do a comedy. I always told myself that I don't have funny bones, and then I was working with Dervla Kirwan in 'Uncle Vanya,' and she was like, 'Lara, you're really, really funny.' And I realised I am, and that's not even me blowing my own trumpet.

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.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.