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Theatre Quotes by Constantin Stanislavski
- 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…
- The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.
- 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.
- It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression.…
- All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.
More Theatre Quotes
- But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers… — Francis Bacon
- It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the… — Tallulah Bankhead
- The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. — Sarah Bernhardt
- For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. — Sarah Bernhardt
- I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. — Kabir Bedi
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground… — Walter Benjamin
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth… — Stella Adler
- The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. — Stella Adler
- Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I… — Theodore Bikel
- Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way… — Juliette Binoche
- This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre,… — Jacqueline Bisset