Ali Fazal Quotes

Every actor has a method.

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

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

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

I don't believe in method acting.

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.

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 like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

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

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

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

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

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'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

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.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.