Carice van Houten Quotes

I'm not a method actress.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

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

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works. It's take a little from here, take a little from there.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

That's one of my little expressions. I never really studied acting so I kind of kiddingly talk about "building your circle" and "mooding up," because I really didn't learn any technique.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

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.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

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.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

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.

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.