Tyrese Gibson Quotes

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

I'd love to be one of those guys who could be like, 'Yeah, it's really exhausting,' but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home.

Once you begin shooting, Bollywood actors get totally involved in their roles, and that gives you an edge in getting what you want out of them.

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 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'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.

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.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

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.

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

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

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

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

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

I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

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

I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.

I gained a lot of confidence after 'IP Man' as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is an actor is supposed to do before a film. Do a lot of research, get into the character. That's what I did with 'Dragon.'