Tim Robbins Quotes

The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

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

I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, 'I know this character,' and you don't do the work anymore.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

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 guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

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

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

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.