Quotes About Method

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the development of falsifiable hypotheses about the world and the unwillingness to take unverified and untheorized claims about the world as truth, simply because someone states that they are true.

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.

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

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I do prepare a lot. I'm a big believer in that.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

Every actor prepares a scene in their own way. For me, it's about understanding the scenario, the room I'm going to be working in, the obstacles in and around the frame, etc.

People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

Everyone has their own way of preparing.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make - much less make that make-believe real.

If I'm trying to get into character and it's an emotional scene, I'll listen to depressing or really sad music.

Not all detectives are the same - some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

'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.

I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.

There are certain disturbing things we simply would rather not realize. Because it is a preprogrammed and mindless method of responding, automatic consistency can supply a safe hiding place from those troubling realizations. Sealed within the fortress walls of rigid consistency, we can be impervious to the sieges of reason.

that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.