Be prepared Quote by William H. Macy

I stick to the script, I memorize the lines

— Lil Wayne

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be…

— Anthony Hopkins

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

— Olivia Colman

This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then…

— Robert Mitchum

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out…

— Quvenzhane Wallis

Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had…

— Jackie Cooper

Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life…

— Valerie Thomas

My process is very simple: I read the script, go to the set, and act. It is like living a life, day by day.

— Arjun Mathur

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

— Patricia Clarkson

I learn my lines in a few different ways. A lot of my dialogue sticks with me in a general sort of way when…

— Candice Patton

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done…

— John Schlesinger

The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I…

— Jeffrey Tambor