Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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.
You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.
It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living
Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.
In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.
There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.
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.
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.
I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.
At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.
I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.
I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
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