LaChanze Quotes

I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.

Every actor has a method.

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.

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 think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

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 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.

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

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

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

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

I never do any research for my roles.

I am not into method acting.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

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

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.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

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