T. J. Miller Quotes

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

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

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

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

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

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

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

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

I'm a method actor.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

Every actor has a method.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

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.

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

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

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

I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.