Peter Mayhew Quotes

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

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

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 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 don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

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

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

I think, as an actor, you create things for your character that you think will make it more personal to you, because on the day, you want to make sure that you're truly there in the moment.

Every actor has a method.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

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

If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.