Jeremy Irvine Quotes

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character.

I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

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

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the words are important.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.