Laurence Fishburne Quotes

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

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 don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

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.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

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.

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.

I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

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

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

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

I don't do rehearsal. Some directors prefer to do rehearsal - readings before the actual shooting - but I don't like this process because I think there are certain things that are so spontaneous, and they cannot happen twice.

'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.

I have a journal, and every character that I play, I write as the character: how I feel about things and how I'm going to play it.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.