Marion Cotillard Quotes

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

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

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

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

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

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

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

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

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 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 never act my characters - I am them.

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

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

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

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.