Sentence examples for method acting in from inspiring English sources

Ours was not the muscular, handsome young Brando who defined method acting in films like "On the Waterfront".

Heflin, a gifted actor whose tortured, interiorized performances helped pave the way for Method acting in Hollywood, plays an unusually extroverted character here.

To demonstrate its new Family Link feature, OnStar, the in-vehicle safety and connectivity system, employed some method acting in New York this week.

In 1961, in "Seven Come Eleven," a cabaret show in Manhattan, Mr. Bruns performed in a spoof of Method acting in which he transformed into a toad because, as his character said, "I projected too much".

WOULD YOU EVER PUT ON WEIGHT FOR A PART? What was it Laurence Olivier said about method acting in riposte to Dustin Hoffman? "Hold on to the furniture and don't let them know that you're drunk!" I'm firmly in the Olivier school.

Jiah Khan's "official" website says she studied Shakespeare and method acting in New York from the age of 17.

Method acting, if you like.

But this was just the start of there being madness in the method acting: back in 2001, Franco played James Dean in an American television biopic.

The "Transformers" star talked about his interest in method acting back in 2012 during an interview with USA Today.

From the start, what Dodd offers is less like psychoanalysis or hypnosis than it is like acting classes — in particular, like Method acting classes, in which ordinary behavior (saying the name, looking at a partner) is linked to the deepest and most tightly buried personal experiences.

But Downey finds it impossible to remain serious for too long, mischievously poking fun at his co-star, whose devotion to Method acting resulted in him spending time in a Russian jail prior to filming: "How bad-ass was Mickey with those whips?" he grins.