It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.
I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.
I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.
Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.
I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.