Odette Annable Quotes

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

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

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'm a real actress.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

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.

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

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.

I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in a contemporary film, there's often room for improvisation and spontaneous things that happen. As long as I know what I'm trying to achieve in the scene, and when something comes up, I know that the response is genuine, I'm comfortable. That's really how I build everything.

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

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

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'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.