Eydie Gorme Quotes

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

I'm not used to a script.

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

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

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

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

I'm not an improv guy.

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'

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

The thing with 'Pippin' is not to over think it too much. If you try and overthink or plan and over-analyze - it's like with any role really, but this one specifically - you can run into sogging wet newspaper. It's just too exciting to do that. It's nice to be bounced around and surprised at almost every line that comes out of your mouth.

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

I've done a lot of television, and there's no rehearsal process - you have to come to the set with your guns blazing and with a point of view.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

I don't like rehearsing.

In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.

I never used to want rehearsals, because I was like, 'Oh, no. I'm more spontaneous. I'm a natural. I'm a one-take person.' But that was because I didn't have any training. I was going off instinct.