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“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.”

“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

“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