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!
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Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.
As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.
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.
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.