Paula Malcomson Quotes

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

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

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

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

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'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

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

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

I'm not a method actor because it refers to a certain kind or technique of acting that I have studied about, and I know I'm not one of them.

I don't believe in method acting.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

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 act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

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

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

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

I am not that big a method actor.

It is how you approach the role given to you, and how you relate to that character and then how you adapt and gel into that role which makes you a good actor.

You normally either get bitten by a character and decide that is the way to play it, and then that begins to inform everything you do, or you decide, 'I don't need to use much character in this - I have basically got to be me'.

I never do roles, I play people.

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.