Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe,… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
I'll tell you this: you cannot escape the impact of emotion, whether it's in a big theater or a tiny one. If… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
If you have the emotion, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it don't bother; just say your lines… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time.… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's for the… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
