Top 35 Method Actor Quotes

I don’t call myself a method actor, but the thing is, when you meet Reynolds Woodcock, who is always Reynolds Woodcock, you kind of are Alma, and you kind of become Alma all the time. I think after the first day, Vicky was going, ‘Oh gosh.’ It was so intense, and I couldn’t understand why it was so intense.

I’m not what you’d call a Method actor.

I wouldn’t call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I’m not a club man. I don’t like isms. I’ve never really studied Stanislavski.

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

I have no idea what ‘method actor’ means.

I’m not a method actor; I hope you know that!

I’m no Method actor. I’ve tried staying in character, and it’s just exhausting.

I’m a method actor as well as a method singer.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

I wouldn’t say I’m a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I’m playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head.

I’m not a Method actor – ask anybody.

I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That way, I try to get into the mood.

I’m not a method actor, but I’m affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It’s always a very strange and special period for me.

I wouldn’t say I’m a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

I’m not a Method actor. I don’t believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I’m playing a blind man, I don’t go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don’t go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

I am not that big a method actor.

There’s this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.

For better or worse, I don’t necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I’m not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

I am neither a method actor nor a trained one. So, I don’t generally prepare for any role. Becoming the character and being in that moment are most important.

I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight ‘method’ actor; as soon as he is in his cloak, he walks and talks like Snape – it is quite terrifying. But I really wanted to talk to him because ‘Robin Hood’ was one of my favourite films.

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.

I’m not a method actor. The techniques that I follow have been created and practiced in my own journey, ones that I have researched, formed and invented.

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.

I guess I’m probably a Method actor; I don’t know… I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Yeah, you know, if I’m having an emotional scene I do like to go off and be by myself; not to say that I’m a method actor or anything like that, but for scenes like that that are more emotional, I do like to take that night off and not be so social.

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I’m not mentally stable enough for that – I need to separate my two worlds.

I’m a method actor.

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.

I am a method actor, but I’m also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don’t have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don’t, then they’re a cartoon character.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

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

I’m not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they’d feel, to put myself in their shoes.

Maybe I’m secretly in my soul a method actor.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.