Jim Caviezel Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

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

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

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.

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.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

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

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

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