Thomas Jane Quotes

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.

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.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

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.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

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.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

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

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

Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.

I consider myself an actor that tries to have as many tools as possible in the bag. And I think that includes the method, then of course it includes some improv techniques, and includes all kinds of different things, because you never know when you're going to have to work on something and in what way.