Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

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• At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles
• Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
• Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?
• Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
• Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little…
• Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
• We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands…
• Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
• The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.
• In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude…
• In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel
• Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
• When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.
• Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.
• Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the…
• Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
• The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.
• Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who…
• The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in…
• Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

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