Method acting Quotes

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

— Richard Armitage

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

— Randeep Hooda

I don't believe in method acting.

— Shruti Haasan

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

— John Barrymore

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

— Dennis Hopper

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

— Dougray Scott

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler”

— Sheana Ochoa

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

— Stella Adler

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

— Tony Bennett

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

— Marc Warren

“This was a Method Acting scene class on somatic mushrooms plus Marx, or something." -Reverend Billy Talen”

— Alisa Solomon

I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard…

— Mekhi Phifer

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting.…

— Christian Camargo

'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro.…

— Ian Holm

I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take…

— Vincent Cassel

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases…

— Corin Nemec

I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have…

— Andy Serkis

“I was sure that none of the other wonderful actors I had met for this role would have such truthfulness, would have…

— Gavin Edwards

I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself…

— Anthony Hopkins

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which…

— Kartik Aaryan

Modern acting is method acting, most of it. And there are sort of different schools, so I guess I'm not really from…

— Annette Bening

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…

— Jeremy Irvine

At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it.…

— Gerard Butler

I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a…

— Dennis Hopper

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

— Corin Nemec

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

— Conor Oberst

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have…

— Ellen Barkin

Learning method acting might mess me up.

— Kellie Martin

I think I'm more the method acting school.

— Morena Baccarin

I am not into method acting.

— Ali Fazal

“What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page.”

— Fierce Dolan

I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor.

— Puneet Issar

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

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

— Johnny Depp

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

— Alia Shawkat

I can't do method acting. I feel there is a different energy that comes when an actor is spontaneous.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

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…

— Carice van Houten

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character…

— Edward Norton

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But…

— Jack Nicholson