Jeremy Irons Quotes

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.

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

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

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

I am neither a method actor nor a trained one. So, I don't generally prepare for any role. Becoming the character and being in that moment are most important.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

I am not into method acting.

Every actor has a method.

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

I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on how I approach a character; the basic skeleton of my preparation is based on observations from real life.

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

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.