> Interesting.  However, I do take exception to your statement that actors   
   > only look at their own lines--bad actors may do that, but not anyone   
   > with any respect for themselves, the profession, or the writers.   
   >   
   > Humph.   
   >   
   > Blair   
   I have heard both Doyle and Claudia Christian say they used that   
   technique. Christian says that's why it's silly to expect her to   
   repeat her "God sent me" soliloquy; after the shooting she forgot it.   
   Doyle does say if he's in the scene, he will study the other person's   
   lines, so if that person doesn't remember their lines he can say   
   things like "If you want me to, I will X, Y and Z," and the other   
   person doesn't have to tell him, saving time and money.  (JMS also   
   says at one point that a certain actor had repeated problems with   
   their lines, which stopped when Jerry "had a chat with him behind the   
   set.")   
   Technique-wise, the character is not supposed to be omniscient, so it   
   makes a certain sense that they don't read everybody else's lines.   
   Especially with JMS writing his self-acknowldeged "Babble-On-and-On"   
   soliloquies. "A thousand years ago . . ."   
   - Joe Chicago   
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