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I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

I never do any research for my roles.

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.

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

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

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.

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

I am neither a method actor nor a trained one. So, I don't generally prepare for any role. Becoming the character and being in that moment are most important.

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

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

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

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'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.

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

I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

I have a journal, and every character that I play, I write as the character: how I feel about things and how I'm going to play 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 learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

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

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.