Quotes About Method

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.

I've got a lot of criticism for not taking domestic fights but I've got my own strategy.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

In the 'Test Kitchen', I have a strict knife sharpening process.

I really wanted to do a deep-dive into the idea that women are always called 'crazy,' and we are painted with such broad strokes because it's so easy to stereotype women and write them off. I got tired of that, and I wanted to explain: We are not crazy. There's a method to our madness.

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.

We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers.

I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way.

I'm the total organizer. Everything's got a system. It's in order.

Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.

I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight.

The style is not the answer. Each method has a message.

Your ability to reach students today is an indicator of your ability to reach your community a few years from now. Measure the percent of students in attendance as if your future depends on it. (Because it does!) And when your student ministry staff discovers a method that works, make sure your adult ministry staff knows about it so they can prepare for a coming shift in their ministries.