Quotes About Method

From strategy to tactics : Making it bona fide.

Many strategies are not strategies in the sense of strategies.

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.

I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.

I like to enter my characters through a physical form first. The first thing I find is the regime of the character - when he wakes up tomorrow, what activities does this person engage in - that's my entry point. Once I get that, then it becomes easy for me.

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.

Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds.

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

I don't suffer from what I believe a lot of actors suffer from, in that they have to do certain things to be an actor, like endlessly study the script and endlessly think about the character. I wouldn't advise that to anybody.

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.

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I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I'm super internal with the way I work.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

The best rule of reading will be a method from nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.

Be pragmatic, then. If you're not happy with the way your writing has gone, you might give my method a try. If you do, I think you might easily find a new definition for Work. And the word is LOVE. 1973

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wanted to know his method, so I asked him why he repeated the words prior to sleep. Here is his reply: 'The kinetic action of the subconscious mind continues throughout your sleep-time period; consequently, give the subconscious mind something good to work on as you drop off into slumber.' This was a very wise answer. In suggesting harmony and health, he never mentioned his trouble by name.

Any method that causes you to move from fear and worry to faith and expectancy will heal. True scientific, mental healing is brought about by the

Self-realization, plus feeling, is the only key to healing. To get results is no proof that your method is scientific or sound.

The reason for this is obvious: The suggestion of powerlessness to overcome the habit dominates his mind; the subconscious mind is always controlled by the dominant idea. The subconscious mind will accept the strongest of two contradictory propositions. The effortless way is the best; this method will be discussed in detail in this chapter.

Collection or an appropriate subtype is generally the best return type for a public, sequence- returning method.