One of the most often asked questions of actors is "How do you learn all of those lines?" and yet, that is the often the easiest and perhaps least important ingredient to a successful performance. Different actors approach the task in different ways and their knowledge of lines isn’t really what want to talk about. However, a deep knowledge of our “lines”--the fundamentals of our jobs--frees us up to get past those lines and limitations to transform the mundane into the memorable.
