Jodie Foster Quotes

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

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

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

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

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

I'm a method actor.

A lot of actors like to get themselves worked up, and I think from what I saw from Mr. Redford, he goes the other way. He relaxes into it.

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

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

Every actor has a method.

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

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.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

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

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

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.