Top 1200 Method Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.

An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get what he needs. Interfering means getting in their way so that what you want is stronger than what they want.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

My job is to go into that audition and be good enough of an Asian actor - or an actor in general - to land that role so they don't have to go out and hire a white guy. My job is to make sure I capitalize on these opportunities that other people created.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken with Plums]. I finally understood what an actor is and what an actor does. On a daily basis, it's a bit repetitive.

The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they should be. As an actor you develop how angry you should be. You select how angry you should be. You listen to the other actor and then you react. In film, sometimes the other actor isn't even there. You have to play the scene. What I do is I call on my experience on the stage. I play the scene and I hope that I reach a certain level of integrity because that's what I learned on the stage.

For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty." -Kuchiki Rukia

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.

Holy men of old were moved upon by the Holy Spirit and the revelation given to them is God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Is God speaking any less today through holy men called of God to bring a message through revelation to this generation? ... We wave our Bibles and cry, 'This is the Word of' God.' Indeed it is God's Word, but the Holy Spirit yet brings revelation to this generation today that is no less God's Word... The prophet is not a method that God uses; but in fact is the only method he uses to speak to this generation.

I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.

I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

I love Jermaine Dupri. He's very smart at what he does. There's always a method to his madness.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

I don't want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything that's a lead.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.