Edward Norton Quotes

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

I always know my lines.

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.

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.

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

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

I normally go through every single line as part of my warm-up before a show. When I'm working on a film or TV programme, there often isn't a rehearsal, so I tend to learn my lines much later. They are often shorter, too, so they're essentially just there.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

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 actually just an actor.

When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'

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

On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

I'm good with a script.

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

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

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

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

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.