Vernon Davis Quotes

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

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.

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

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

I learn the whole script before I show up.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

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.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.

As long as I can keep remembering the lines and getting to the locations, I want to keep working as long as I can. I love it.

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.

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

I used to learn my lines on the toilet, in the car, at dinner.

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.

Learn your lines so well that you never have to worry about them.

I stand in the mirror, look at the plays and try to say them to myself to get ready for the next day.

I have only one hobby and that is acting. It's my passion, my hobby, so I don't need a break to pursue my hobby.

I love to prepare for my roles.

When preparing for auditions, I have no rituals. I just try to be as prepared as possible.

I get very excited when I get a chance to work with actors who are as passionate as I am.

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.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.