Best Method Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“With acting, you gotta keep in mind everyone has a different method, experience, education, and how they do their craft. I'm not going to go up to Sandra Bullock and be like, 'Okay, now Sandra, listen, this is my process and this is how I work. Meet me there.'”

“If a specific method works for me, there's no reason for me to change it.”

“I am spontaneous and not a method actor.”

“I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.”

“I have my method when it comes to my work. I don't think about who has done what, rather what I am doing is of utmost importance to me.”

“I am a Wu-Tang member and Method Man, he been a Def Squad member way before I was a Wu member. I was like a Wu member but I wasn't official.”

“I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness.”

“Working with Method Man was such an honor. I love his music even though I didn't grow up in his era.”

“I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.”

“I don't believe in method acting.”

“When I was about nine, I went to school with a toothbrush in my mouth. I saw Method Man do it in a video.”

“Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.”

“My working method has always been, 'Work really hard and get it right the first time.'”

“I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.”

“Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in.”

“I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.”

“I like to think that I'm extremely method with my tactics on getting work.”

“My method is, I just sit down and write a book.”

“I use this method to bring emotion into my performance. I recite my lines in English first, and then switch back to the original lines when shooting begins.”

“I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.”

“God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.”

“I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.”

“If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.”

“Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.”

“I'm not a method actor; I hope you know that!”

“I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.”

“I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.”

“I have no idea what 'method actor' means.”

“You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.”

“Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.”

“Yeah, you know, if I'm having an emotional scene I do like to go off and be by myself; not to say that I'm a method actor or anything like that, but for scenes like that that are more emotional, I do like to take that night off and not be so social.”

“I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.”

“I guess maybe my method is to take self-care where you can - even if it is something sort of small and it's not a whole routine. It's this idea of resetting, shutting down, stepping away.”

“Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.”

“I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.”

“I always try and use my jiujitsu to win fights. That's my favorite method of securing victory.”

“I am not into method acting.”

“I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.”

“I think it is very important to be a method actor.”

“I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.”

“I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.”

“I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.”

“I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.”

“Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.”

“I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.”

“We know we have a method of reaching people, but we have never wanted to preach. We like to make our views palatable, music that is easy to swallow, and I think we've done that.”

“I'm a method actor.”

“I'm not a method actor because it refers to a certain kind or technique of acting that I have studied about, and I know I'm not one of them.”

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

“I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.”

“The method in which the UFC parted ways with me has been very vindictive.”

“I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.”

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

“At all times it is better to have a method.”

“To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.”

“What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”

“I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.”

“Naftali Bennett and I have a method in life: We believe in seizing opportunities.”

“I can't do method acting. I feel there is a different energy that comes when an actor is spontaneous.”

“It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.”

“I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.”

“The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.”

“I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That way, I try to get into the mood.”

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

“I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.”

“Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.”

“I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.”

“Work hard but with a smile, this is the best method.”

“But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.”

“I'm not what you'd call a Method actor.”

“If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.”

“I'm not a Method actor - ask anybody.”

“That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.”

“I don't know if I'm a method actor.”

“I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.”

“Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.”

“People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.”

“Well, I have a very simple method of painting.”

“The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.”

“I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.”

“I am neither a method actor nor a trained one. So, I don't generally prepare for any role. Becoming the character and being in that moment are most important.”

“I am not that big a method actor.”

“People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.”

“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”

“Knowledge comes from imagination, observation, action, and experience; and science is a time-honoured method for turning guesses and hunches into verifiable facts; into shiny new pieces of knowledge.”

“Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.”