Nicolas Cage Quotes

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

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

I never act my characters - I am them.

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

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

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

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

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

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 try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

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

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.