Quotes About Method

Having a method without materials to which it can be applied is as useless as having the materials with no method to apply to them.

Whatever approach you take to reading the Bible, don't let yourself become a slave to the method. Don't get so caught up in the mechanics that you miss the point.

There is method to her madness!

Points to ponder: Have you a method by which you can shield yourself against the negative influence of others? Are you easily influenced by others, against your own judgment? Do you form your own opinions or permit yourself to be influenced by other people?

Ese era siempre el método más eficaz para colarse en cualquier lugar de acceso restringido: comportarse como quien sabe adónde va y no requiere permiso ni orientación. El juego de la infiltración es similar al de la seducción: el que pide permiso ha perdido antes de empezar.

In your mind, this is clearly a scientific endeavor." "Of course. The best way to approach any line of inquiry is through the scientific method." I was quite fond of postmodern literary analysis myself, as a line of inquiry. "What drew you to the scientific study of a subject that most people are all too happy to dismiss as folklore?

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.

I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

Most American actors are taught the Stanislavsky method... Method acting, but I really think that as an actor you have to develop what works for you. There is really not one way of doing anything. There are many ways of achieving the same goal.