Viggo Mortensen Quotes

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

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.

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

Every actor has a method.

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

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.

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

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

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.

Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

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.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.

It is how you approach the role given to you, and how you relate to that character and then how you adapt and gel into that role which makes you a good actor.

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

I am not into method acting.

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

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.

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

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

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

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!

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