Quotes About Method

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

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 believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Every director works differently.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

If I can keep it light in between scenes, then that helps me dig down further than if I try and stay at that constant place all day. That's just me. Every actor's got their thing. But that's what I do.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

If you broke down my technique, it wouldn't really take a rocket scientist to do so.

My acting technique is a combination of a lot of different ones. A lot of it is Meisner.

I'm not a method actor because it refers to a certain kind or technique of acting that I have studied about, and I know I'm not one of them.

Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character.

I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I'm not a solid enough actor to have techniques.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.

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.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a telescope look just like stars with one exception: They move with time.