Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.
“I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.”
“I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.”