Angie Dickinson Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I'm so OCD about prep work and learning lines and stuff.

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.

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

I learn the lines and pray to God.

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

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

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

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

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.

Whenever I was done with a scene, I'd go back to my trailer, relax and go over my lines. I'd think, 'I can't wait to get out there.'

I have this habit of not rehearsing a lot; I don't go on practicing my dialogues, pauses, and actions.

I really struggle to fight and say lines at the same time. It's hard.

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

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

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.

I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.

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

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

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.

I learn the whole script before I show up.