Rebecca De Mornay Quotes

As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I'm good with a script.

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

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

I'm not used to a script.

I love to prepare for my roles.

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

This acting was very hard work.

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

Acting was my first love.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

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.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.