Dan Fogler Quotes

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.

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.

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.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

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

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.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

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.

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

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.

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

I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'

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 had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

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

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

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.

People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.