Laura Donnelly Quotes

Every actor has a method.

I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.

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.

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

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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'm a method actor.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

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

I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

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.