George Hickenlooper Quotes

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

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.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'

I've always approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.

I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.

I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

I never do any research for my roles.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.