Michael Chekhov Quotes

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• When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if…
• Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best…
• I am a creative artist. I have the ability to radiate. Lifting my arms above me, I soar above the earth. Lowering my arms, I…
• Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs…
• This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this…
• You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.
• Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING
• The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination…
• All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.
• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse…
• An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.
• The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown…

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