Method Quotes - Page 26

• My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.

  Javier Bardem

  Fun, People, Actors

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• James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Character, Practice, Boxing

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

  Robert Mitchum

  Motivation, Kids, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

  Emily Browning

  Two Worlds, Would Be, Needs

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• The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Christian, Pain, Missing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

  Dougray Scott

  Horse, Military, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families.

  Joan Lunden

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Joan Lunden, 54, mother of twins". Interview with Deborah Norville, www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2004.

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• You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Thinking, Deception, Musician

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• These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge.  The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents a particular knowledge logic, one built on specific presumptions about what knowledge is and how one should identify its most relevant components.  That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God.

  Tarleton Gillespie

  Assessment, Common Sense, Experts

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• Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Book, Hands

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• In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Technique, Kicking, Hitting

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• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Expression, Discipline, Creative

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• Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Mean, Greatness, Ends

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Oscar Wilde

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• Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Errors

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• There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Order, Discipline, Virtue

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• I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

  Anthony Minghella

  Notebook, Writing, Expectations

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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• Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

  Edward Abbey

  Scientific Method, Madness

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Hands, May

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• Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Fall, Compassion, Hands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.338

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• The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Order, World, Opinion

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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• Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

  John Yoo

  Pain, Law, Definitions

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• Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Different, Birth Control

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• It's not the method, it's the mindset.

  Andy Gilbert

  Attitude, Mindset

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