Alice Lowe Quotes

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

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

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

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

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

With movies, depending on who your director is or what kind of movie you're shooting, you kind of have more of an ability to play around with the material, go off the page, improv. It's like we did with '21 And Over.' Same thing we did in 'Walk Of Shame.' Same thing we did in 'House Bunny.' You have the freedom to do that.

You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.

I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.

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

Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.

I like to believe that my actors are not acting. That whatever they are doing, or whatever has been said, would happen in real life.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

I am not into method acting.

Every actor has a method.

There's some actors that go easily between drama and comedy because they play the naturalism of the role, and they just have natural timing.

People think acting is just memorizing lines and doing facial expressions. No it's about traveling along a path of discovery, intention and connection.

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