Lee Hazlewood Quotes

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.

People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.

Any time you're in front of a camera and have them yell 'Cut, re-shoot the scene,' are you kidding me? That's a huge advantage.

It's hard to be on TV, it's really hard.

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only.

I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.

Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is not my thing.

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

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.

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera.

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.