Circumstances Quote by Constantin Stanislavski

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

— Constantin Stanislavski

Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.

— Gregory Bateson

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a…

— Jamie Parker

As an actor, I've been taught to just stay with your scene partner, and whatever they do, let it affect you, be spontaneous.

— Alex Sharp

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone…

— Tom Courtenay

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

When you play someone, you want to do it so fully that then the next time you could play an opposite person and do…

— Fred Hechinger

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

— Michele Cassou

You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play…

— Wallace Shawn

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

— Robert Goulet

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and…

— Frances Conroy

There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place,…

— Michael J. Fox