Jane Badler Quotes

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

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

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

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

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

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

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 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.'

It's part of the actor's job to show up with a head full of steam, to have their own take on this. So that way, you're not relying on, 'OK, tell me how to do it.'

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.

I was amazed by the kind of preparation Hollywood actors do for their roles.

Every actor has a method.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

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

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

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.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.