June Foray Quotes

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Acting is very immediate.

I always know my lines.

The key to Presidential debates is to rehearse those [dramatic] moments but don’t let them look scripted.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

Acting takes so much energy.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

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

I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

I learn the lines and pray to God.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

I'm not used to a script.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on.