Molly Parker Quotes

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.

While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

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.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

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

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

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

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.

Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.

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

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.