Carice van Houten Quotes

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

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

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

I am not into method acting.

Every actor has a method.

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

I'm not an instinctive actor.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

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

People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

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

A lot of actors like to get themselves worked up, and I think from what I saw from Mr. Redford, he goes the other way. He relaxes into it.

I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

I don't believe in method acting.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

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

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.