Ray Fearon Quotes

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

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.

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

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

Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.

I like to rehearse before blocking.

The only thing that's required of an actor for an audition is to memorize your sides with confident choices, and then the rest is not up to you. You're either right for a part or you're not.

When you act you realise acting is not that difficult - the other technicalities are, like the mark, angle, light, etc. So you just not have to memorise your lines but keep in mind the mark, the angle and light. It is difficult.

For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

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

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

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

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.

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

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

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.