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->"It’s entertaining—everybody knows somebody like that Bob guy. We and didn’t get along on the movie particularly, but it worked for the movie. I mean, I drove him nuts, and he encouraged me to drive him nuts."
-->--'''Creator/BillMurray''' on ''Film/WhatAboutBob''

->"How about it? Funny movie. Terribly unpleasant experience. We didn’t get along, me and Bill Murray. But I’ve got to give it to him: I don’t like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I’m also jealous that he’s a better golfer than I am. It’s a funny movie. No one ever comes up to you and says, 'I identify with the patient.' They always say, 'I have patients like that. I identify with your character.' No one ever says that they’re willing to identify with the other character."
-->--'''Creator/RichardDreyfuss''' on ''Film/WhatAboutBob''



->''So I was driving up to the gate of this estate in a big Cadillac, with Creator/ArmandAssante sitting next to me and holding a gun to my head, when the neo-Nazis opened fire. Assante jumped out of the car into the bushes, while I kept driving and screaming, "It's me! It's me!" until [[EveryCarIsAPinto the car blew up]]. There were flames shooting past the windows (gas had been ignited along the path of the car), and there were cameras attached to the car on both sides. By the time I finally got out of there, my pants, the laces on shoes, my socks, were all burnt, almost to my calf... (On every picture, the A.D. is [[DrillSergeantNasty the biggest pain in the ass]]; he's the guy that hollers, "Quiet, we're rolling," and always very loud; they all have terrible voices.) Over his bullhorn, this A.D. was yelling, 'We're doing it again, one more take.'\\\

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->''So I was driving up to the gate of this estate in a big Cadillac, with Creator/ArmandAssante sitting next to me and holding a gun to my head, when the neo-Nazis opened fire. Assante jumped out of the car into the bushes, while I kept driving and screaming, "It's me! It's me!" until [[EveryCarIsAPinto the car blew up]]. There were flames shooting past the windows (gas had been ignited along the path of the car), and there were cameras attached to the car on both sides. By the time I finally got out of there, my pants, the laces on shoes, my socks, were all burnt, almost to my calf... (On every picture, the A.D. is [[DrillSergeantNasty the biggest pain in the ass]]; ass; he's the guy that hollers, "Quiet, we're rolling," and always very loud; they all have terrible voices.) Over his bullhorn, this A.D. was yelling, 'We're "We're doing it again, one more take.'\\\"\\\



->"I'm on the phone, at my desk with the Mayor, who's Sonny Bono, right? And I'm saying, 'Get me the Mayor '''''NOW!'''''[='=] I'd slam the phone receiver on my desk, and I've got a cigar in my hand. And the dolly would move closer and closer to me...Take 1, Take 10, Take 12, Take 13, and finally the light producer says, 'Alright, ladies and gentlemen, ''one more'' take and then we're gonna take this after lunch, let's GET IT RIGHT!' So I've got this big 'ol fat cigar--I don't smoke, I'm turning green--and they go, 'aaaand ACTION!' And I get on the phone and go, 'Get me the Mayor '''''NOW!'''''[='=] and I slam it on the desk... I don't hear 'cut', it's good, they got it in focus; but what happens is that when I slam my hand on the desk, the ash from my cigar goes flying in the air out-of-camera, and when it comes down, the burning ember from the cigar lands on ''my hand.'' And as the camera is coming in closer to me, I at first ''hear'' the sound of burning flesh, and then '''smell''' my own hand on fire. And the nostrils start to quiver, and the eyes start to water, as the camera comes tighter and tighter on this closeup-- And they go, 'Oh my god, CUT, PRINT, '''''GREAT JOB''''', John!'"

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->"I'm on the phone, at my desk with the Mayor, who's Sonny Bono, right? And I'm saying, 'Get me the Mayor '''''NOW!'''''[='=] ''NOW!''[='=] I'd slam the phone receiver on my desk, and I've got a cigar in my hand. And the dolly would move closer and closer to me...Take 1, Take 10, Take 12, Take 13, and finally the light producer says, 'Alright, ladies and gentlemen, ''one more'' take and then we're gonna take this after lunch, let's GET IT RIGHT!' So I've got this big 'ol fat cigar--I don't smoke, I'm turning green--and they go, 'aaaand ACTION!' And I get on the phone and go, 'Get me the Mayor '''''NOW!'''''[='=] ''NOW!''[='=] and I slam it on the desk... I don't hear 'cut', it's good, they got it in focus; but what happens is that when I slam my hand on the desk, the ash from my cigar goes flying in the air out-of-camera, and when it comes down, the burning ember from the cigar lands on ''my hand.'' And as the camera is coming in closer to me, I at first ''hear'' the sound of burning flesh, and then '''smell''' ''smell'' my own hand on fire. fire! Oh, yeah! And the nostrils start to quiver, and the eyes start to water, as the camera comes tighter and tighter on this closeup-- And they go, 'Oh my god, CUT, PRINT, '''''GREAT JOB''''', ''GREAT JOB'', John!'"



'''Gabriel:''' That's his ''kid!'' That's not method acting, that's just, "[[LostInCharacter You have to be Paul Atreides now!"]]\\
'''Yahtzee:''' Okay, that is a bit fucked.

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'''Gabriel:''' That's his ''kid!'' That's not method acting, that's just, "[[LostInCharacter You "You have to be Paul Atreides now!"]]\\
now!"\\
'''Yahtzee:''' Okay, that is ''is'' a bit fucked.



->''It’s an acceptably tense bit, but I get a chuckle from the gasps May lets out every time an explosion goes off... she [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises makes a face like a gaffing fish]]. Apparently, this was a legit reaction at the time, because [[Creator/SharonStone (Sharon) Stone]] wasn’t used to [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosions]] going off all around her.''

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->''It’s an acceptably tense bit, but I get a chuckle from the gasps May lets out every time an explosion goes off... she [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises makes a face like a gaffing fish]]. Apparently, this was a legit reaction at the time, because [[Creator/SharonStone (Sharon) Stone]] wasn’t used to [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosions]] going off all around her.''

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