Richard C. Armitage Quotes

I don't believe in method acting.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

I am not into method acting.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

Every actor has a method.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

The worst acting is about imitation.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

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

I never act my characters - I am them.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

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

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

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

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.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

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

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.