Divya Dutta Quotes

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 each role the same way.

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

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.

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'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.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

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

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.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

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.

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 approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

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.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

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

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

The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.

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

I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.

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.

Actors are terrible at overthinking things before they turn up to work, and they decide on a way they're going to do it, and then it's hard to break them out of it.