Brendan Fraser Quotes

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

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

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

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.

Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor; you don't have to do so much. Just let the material sit inside you and let it come out. Just say the words. That was the main thing that I learned from doing Aaron Sorkin's work - say the words, and everything else will happen.

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

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into 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 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.

To an actor, what is most satisfying is that you perform your role as naturally and that people enjoy it, and more importantly, you enjoy it.

My favorite kind of acting scenes, or at least where I think people shine the brightest, are odes to Meisner technique scenes where people are face-to-face, and it's almost like a repetition exercise.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

I'll be more interested in acting only when it has to do something with who I am in real life. More like playing a singer or musician on screen like in 'Aashiqui' or 'Rockstar.'

I am not into method acting.

Every actor has a method.