Quotes About Method Acting

#1. There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

Edward Norton

#2. I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

Jessica White

#3. I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

Laura Donnelly

#4. I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#5. It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

Conor Oberst

#6. There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

Susan Strasberg

#7. It was like being threatened by wolves dressed as sheep, who had sunk so deep into their method acting that they were now unclear about the whole 'being dangerous' thing.

Jonathan L. Howard

#8. Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

John Barrymore

#9. You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.

Richard C. Armitage

#10. I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Randeep Hooda

#11. Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.

Jello Biafra

#12. In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

Corin Nemec

#13. What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page.

Fierce Dolan

#14. I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

Ellen Barkin

#15. In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

Dennis Hopper

#16. There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

Jack Nicholson

#17. Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Bret Easton Ellis

#18. I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.

Annette Bening

#19. There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

Corin Nemec

#20. Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

Dougray Scott

#21. I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

Marc Warren

#22. I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

Carice Van Houten

#23. 'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.

Ian Holm

#24. Most American actors are taught the Stanislavsky method ... Method acting, but I really think that as an actor you have to develop what works for you. There is really not one way of doing anything. There are many ways of achieving the same goal.

Ving Rhames

#25. Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in.

Molly Antopol

#26. There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

Johnny Depp

#27. Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

Christian Camargo

#28. Nipple erection on command - now that's method acting. Oh,

Jim Butcher

#29. When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Tom Holland

#30. These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

Robert Mitchum

#31. Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.

Emma Stone

#32. A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Iris Murdoch

#33. I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Vivien Leigh

#34. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Laozi

#35. All FILM directors are good actors, because you have to understand actors in order to program them.

Henry Johnson Jr

#36. I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

Natassia Malthe

#37. I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it's a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.

Nicole Kidman

#38. I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

Mekhi Phifer

#39. She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it.

Ayn Rand

#40. As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Patton Oswalt

#41. I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

David Duchovny

#42. It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

A. E. Waite

#43. I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain ... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Method Man

#44. It kind of varies. I don't have a method yet. It depends on the script and the character I think I need. I've worked with acting coaches, researched roles, and channeled different parts of myself. It's on a case-by-case for me, right now.

Zoe Kravitz

#45. I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

Natalie Portman

#46. The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#47. My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.

Tina Fey