Method Quotes

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have anything to hide behind when we're doing this.

Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.

The favorite method of vice is to diss all responsibility be work or social, go off by myself, and enjoy a good steak and a great glass of wine. Oh yeah, and my kids are there too.

In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

I am really Method-y.

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity.

To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.

Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

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

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.

The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

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

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

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.

If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.