Quotes About Technique

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

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.

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 think I'm more the method acting school.

I am not into method acting.

Roasting fish that's encased inside a salt crust is a centuries-old method of ensuring moist, ultra-flavorful flesh.

Learning method acting might mess me up.

I'm not a Method actor - ask anybody.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

I'm a method actor.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

I'm inspired by Jackson Pollock; splashing layer upon layer, using different materials, experimenting with new methods to produce something fresh. I'd love to be able to create in this way!

I was a huge fan of Shane Douglas and how he used the microphone during a match.

I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives.

In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.

Faith in technique is the religion of the dangerous trades. To go up against an armed felon in a gunfight or to fight him in the dirt you have to believe perfect technique, hard training, will guarantee that you are invincible. This is not true, particularly in firefights. You can stack the odds in your favor, but if you get into enough gunfights, you will be killed in one.

One of the more interesting memos written during his two-week trial period urged Rapf to secure a print of The Battleship Potemkin, a recent film by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. "It possesses a technique relatively new to the screen," wrote Selznick, "and I therefore suggest that it might be advantageous to have the organization view it in the same way that a group of artists might view and study a Rubens or a Raphael.

Turner watercolour

P?i práci s pilníkem nebo pilkou na železo tla?te p?i pohybu vzad. Tyto základní návyky vám možná p?ipadají samoz?ejmé a nudné, ale práv? ony d?lají dobrého mechanika.

To return to the question of my technique, I ask myself to what extent I am indebted to Freud. In any case I learned it from Freud's method of free association, and I regard my technique as a further development of this method.

Better technique trumps more effort.

his analysis of Kiss Me, Kate, Joseph P. Swain notes Porter's technique of moving from the major mode to the minor mode or vice versa to distinguish the Padua songs from their Baltimore counterparts.