George Clooney Quotes

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

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

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

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

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

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 was amazed by the kind of preparation Hollywood actors do for their roles.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

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

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.

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

When preparing a role, I work first on the body language and physical aspects of the performance; the psychological dimension comes naturally once I'm in character.

Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.