About Quote by Edward Norton

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a…

— Britt Robertson

I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything about it…

— Edward Norton

As an actor, you tend to draw on your human instincts and your background, what you've gone through as an individual.

— Michael Ealy

I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience itself. You…

— Sam Levinson

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

— Humphrey Bogart

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

— Faye Dunaway

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive…

— Chris Bauer

The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is…

— John Lithgow

You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and they have…

— Panos Cosmatos

That's why people, not that I think this is like always a necessary process, but people who are method actors, there's a reason you…

— Monica Barbaro

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It…

— Richard Dreyfuss

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that…

— Sada Thompson