Method Acting Quotes

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

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Writing, Acting

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. September 30, 2007.

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

  Conor Oberst

  Acting, Method, Wells

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

  Dougray Scott

  Acting, Labels, Method

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

  Stella Adler

  Life, Music, Crush

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, People, Greek

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• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Actors, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

  George Clooney

  Drinking, Years, Training

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

  Dennis Hopper

  Ideas, Live In The Moment, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Character, Practice, Boxing

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, Greek, Theatre

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.29, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Actors, Good Times, Projects

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• 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

  Real, Character, Emotional

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Reality, Perception, Acting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  John Barrymore

  Ice, Glasses, Acting

  Quoted in Actors about Acting, Loving, Living, Life (1972).

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• I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Mom, Hate, War

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

  Tony Bennett

  Singing, Acting, Actors

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• 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

  Character, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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

  Teacher, Acting, Levels

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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• 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

  Writing, Eye, Ideas

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.

  Gerard Butler

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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

  Johnny Depp

  Acting, Unicorn, Good Times

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• 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

  Real, Writing, School

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.

  Dennis Hopper

  Acting, Hollywood, Dean

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Play, Acting, Too Much

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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