Michael Socha Quotes

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

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

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.

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.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

I'm good with a script.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

As an actor, you have to have your history.

When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you're not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That's where you can find the freedom. So I'm all about prep work.

Can I be a leading man? I don't believe myself to be; I don't think that I am, but I'm in this place as a performer where I think about how to make things smaller, more subtle.

Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.

I stand in the mirror, look at the plays and try to say them to myself to get ready for the next day.

During theatre, I had never faced problems with my lines and I was very proud of myself.

Acting takes courage.

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

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

Giving auditions is a great exercise. They will provide you with a script, and you prepare in 10 minutes. And you perform in front of 100 other people.

All that acting and all that stuff and emoting and crap will come after you know what you're doing. So when you get - when I get on stage, I don't have to think about it.

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

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 wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

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.