Matthew Lewis Quotes

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

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

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

The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

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

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

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 approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.

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

I have to evolve as an actor.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

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

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

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 love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

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.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

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

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

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 used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.