Method Acting Quotes

“The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dying Detective - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler”
― Sheana Ochoa, Stella! Mother of Modern Acting

“What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page.”
― Fierce Dolan

“All FILM directors are good actors, because you have to understand actors in order to program them.”
― Henry Johnson Jr

“You see, I’d created this character for myself. This self-deprecating Pied Piper of a young guy. Then I became that.”
― Matty Healy

“I was sure that none of the other wonderful actors I had met for this role would have such truthfulness, would have such courage and self-awareness of auto-destruction as River does. - Agnieszka Holland”
― Gavin Edwards, Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind

“The search for truth in artistic expression is the core of the work in the realistic school of acting.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“I am very pleased that my commitment to acting as a transformative art form has been recognized ..... I did my best not to fall into clichés by observing the gay scene in Berlin in its most diverse forms, working also on my feminine side.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“The Method tends to be linear, almost like a 19th century mechanistic way of thinking in its search for a cause that produces the desired effect.”
― Giovanni Morassutti, Strasberg legacy

“I think I have absorbed the original spirit of the Actors Studio at a young age where actors kept working on themselves regardless of their material success.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“Nic Cage excelled at making love look dangerous.”
― Zach Schonfeld, How Coppola Became Cage

“You have to really step into the character and do whatever it takes to make the audience believe in you.”
― Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai