Rick Hoffman Quotes

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.

Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

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.

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

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

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

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

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

I learn my lines in a few different ways. A lot of my dialogue sticks with me in a general sort of way when I read the entire script for the first or second time. Then, when I get the shooting schedule, I have a better idea of what scenes are shooting when. I then will focus on those that are coming up first.

I'm always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.

I'm terrible at learning lines. I'm good at learning lines when I don't have to be word-perfect.

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.

Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

Memorizing the song and singing it are two different things.