Love Quote by Wayne Rogers

Rogers is describing a kind of onstage tightrope walk that only looks like spontaneity. The line pivots on a delicious contradiction: he wants to be "not knowing what I'm gonna do", but only after "having rehearsed all of those". That tension is the craft. Rehearsal, in his telling, isn’t about locking a performance into place; it’s about building a stocked toolbox so you can improvise without panicking, stay present without getting sloppy.

The subtext is a quiet critique of two actorly clichés: the over-rehearsed robot who hits marks like a metronome, and the self-mythologizing "instinct" performer who treats preparation as optional. Rogers splits the difference. He frames uncertainty as a position you can earn, not a chaos you stumble into. The phrase "position of not knowing" is telling; it’s almost strategic, like he’s choosing a vantage point where curiosity stays alive.

Contextually, this sounds like a working actor speaking from ensemble-heavy experience, where the real electricity comes from other people. He’s not romanticizing the lone genius. The sentence keeps leaning outward: "when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting". Acting becomes listening, reacting, taking the offer. The intent is practical and democratic: the best moments aren’t preplanned; they’re negotiated in real time, and your job is to be ready enough to let the moment rewrite you without breaking the scene.