Caleb Landry Jones Quotes

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

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

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

I'm not a Method actor - ask anybody.

For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

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

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

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

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

I'm not an instinctive actor.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

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

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

I don't believe in method acting.

I never do roles, I play people.

I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.