John Malkovich Quotes

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

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

I am neither a method actor nor a trained one. So, I don't generally prepare for any role. Becoming the character and being in that moment are most important.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

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.

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.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

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

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.

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 never do any research for my roles.

I am not that big a method actor.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

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

I'm not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.