David Duchovny Quotes

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

Every actor has a method.

I've always approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.

I am not into method acting.

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

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'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.

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

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.

There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much mysticism attached to it. But it's a craft like any other - it's something you have to work hard at.

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.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

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 like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

Actors are investigators.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

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.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.