Hugh Jackman Quotes

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

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.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

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.

I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.

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

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

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.

Most American actors are taught the Stanislavsky method... Method acting, but I really think that as an actor you have to develop what works for you. There is really not one way of doing anything. There are many ways of achieving the same goal.

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

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

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I can watch movies that I've been in, and if there's an emotional scene, I remember specifically what I was using, what I was thinking about, because I am very specific in how I work.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

I'm not a Method actor - ask anybody.

For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.

I never do any research for my roles.

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

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

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

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.