Bill Macy Quotes

I am not into method acting.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

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

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

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

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

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

I'm a method actor.

I'm not a method actor; I hope you know that!

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

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

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

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

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

I'm not what you'd call a Method actor.

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.