John Garfield Quotes

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

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 think I'm more the method acting school.

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

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

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.

I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.

I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

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

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.

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.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

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

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I'm a method actor.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

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