Khandi Alexander Quotes

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.

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.

These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

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

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

I think I'm more the method acting school.

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

My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

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

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

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.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

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 was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the words are important.

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

Most American actors are taught the Stanislavsky method... Method acting, but I really think that as an actor you have to develop what works for you. There is really not one way of doing anything. There are many ways of achieving the same goal.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.