Richard Madden Quotes

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.

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

I am not into method acting.

Every actor has a method.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.

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

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

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

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

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

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

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time.

I'm 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.

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

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.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

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

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

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