Robin Williams Quotes

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

I'm not a method actress.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.

Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works. It's take a little from here, take a little from there.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.