Actor's Method Quotes

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We're trying to play real people.

It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

My creative workday starts with strong breakfast tea and a few minutes of journaling, both of which help me get my head in the story. So much of story-building for me involves immersing myself in the character and situation I'll be working on, just the way an actor does when playing a role.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

I let action rise out of character, really.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

You have to let the costume inform you.

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

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.'

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.

But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.