Alex Pettyfer Quotes

I am neither a method actor nor a trained one. So, I don't generally prepare for any role. Becoming the character and being in that moment are most important.

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

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.

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 personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

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

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

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

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

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

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.

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.

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.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

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

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

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

A lot of film acting is about being casual.

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.

Every actor has a method.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.