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

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Author:Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai

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

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Author:Giovanni Morassutti

“Nic Cage excelled at making love look dangerous.”

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Book:How Coppola Became Cage

Source: How Coppola Became Cage

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler”

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Book:Stella! Mother of Modern Acting

Source: Stella! Mother of Modern Acting

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

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Author:Fierce Dolan

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

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Author: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.”

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Author: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”

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Book:Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind

Source: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Book:Strasberg legacy

Source: 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.”

Author:Giovanni Morassutti

“In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.”

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Author:Corin Nemec

“There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.”

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Author:Corin Nemec

“It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.”

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Author:John Barrymore

“There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.”

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Author:Dennis Hopper

“I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.”

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Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.”

“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.”

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Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.”

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Author:Tony Bennett

“I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.”

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Author:Dennis Hopper

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.”

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Author:Stella Adler

“There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.”

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Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.”

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Author:George Clooney

“At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.”

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Author:Gerard Butler

“James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.”

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Author:Tyrese Gibson

“When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.”

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Author:Stewart O'Nan

“I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.”

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Author:Carice van Houten

“I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.”

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Author:Ellen Barkin

“You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.”

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Author:Elisha Cuthbert