Haley Joel Osment Quotes

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they're not, is a lot.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

I think I'm more the method acting school.

I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.

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

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

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

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.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.

I'm a method actor.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

I was amazed by the kind of preparation Hollywood actors do for their roles.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.