Pollyanna McIntosh Quotes

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

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

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

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

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.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

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.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

I'm not a Method actor - ask anybody.

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

I'm not a method actor because it refers to a certain kind or technique of acting that I have studied about, and I know I'm not one of them.

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

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

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

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

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

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.