Ruben Santiago-Hudson Quotes

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

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

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'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 like to have something to base a role on.

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.

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.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

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

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

There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

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.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.