Edward Norton Quotes

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

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

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

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

I am not into method acting.

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

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

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.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

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

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.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

Every actor has a method.

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 had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

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

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

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