Tim Meadows 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 really struggle to fight and say lines at the same time. It's hard.

This acting was very hard work.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

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

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.

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

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

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

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

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.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

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.

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

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

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 just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

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

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