Quotes About Acting

'Jab We Met' is the reason why I have become an actress.

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need for method acting. This is what I have learnt from Bharat Muni's 'Natya Shastra' and from the Russian theatre legend Stanislavsky.

I think I'm more the method acting school.

I am not into method acting.

I don't believe in method acting.

I am proud to say I'm a director's composer. People do method acting, I do method composing. I like to get into the skin of the character and go deep into the director's vision.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

Learning method acting might mess me up.

There is nothing, not a thing, like the process of creating a character for the stage - you can't get it anywhere else. Unless you're totally method and spend six months living your life like your character for a film, the theater is the place to get that intense acting experience.

I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.