Jerry Hall 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.

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.

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

In the past, I've done some covering. My first show in New York, I covered three guys in 'Jersey Boys.' I think it was always something that was helpful for keeping my head on straight.

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

I like to rehearse before blocking.

Acting is about portraying something... that dedication or learning the script of it is really important in really getting to know a topic.

The script looks huge when you first get it, but you just have to go home and drill the lines out. The more you read it, the shorter it gets. I usually read it at least four times.

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

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

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.

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

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough.

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.

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.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

This acting was very hard work.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

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