Peyton List Quotes

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

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'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

I'm not a Method actor - ask anybody.

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

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

I'm not what you'd call a Method actor.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.

I'm not a method actor because it refers to a certain kind or technique of acting that I have studied about, and I know I'm not one of them.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

I never do roles, I play people.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

You normally either get bitten by a character and decide that is the way to play it, and then that begins to inform everything you do, or you decide, 'I don't need to use much character in this - I have basically got to be me'.

I don't believe in method acting.

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.

While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

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

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.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.