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.
“We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.”
“I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.”