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All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. — Constantin Stanislavski

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours. — Constantin Stanislavski

Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench. — Terry Pratchett

Every new friend is a new adventure ...
... the start of more memories. — Patrick Lindsay

Any thought that you don't control has the power to become toxic. — Toni Sorenson

Some people are different, and so are the rest of us. — Clive James

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess. — John Stott

I know there's a road laid out. Just need to find the trail. — Lynette Sowell

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. — Constantin Stanislavski

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. — Constantin Stanislavski

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite. — Constantin Stanislavski

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton

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

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. — Constantin Stanislavski

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred. — Ron Kauk

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted. — Constantin Stanislavski

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves! — Constantin Stanislavski

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born. — Constantin Stanislavski

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy. — Konstantin Stanislavski

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice. — Constantin Stanislavski

When we are on stage, we are in the here and now. — Constantin Stanislavski

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was. — Kurt Vonnegut

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. — Constantin Stanislavski

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. — Constantin Stanislavski

Play well, or play badly, but play truly. — Constantin Stanislavski

Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you. — Constantin Stanislavski

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be. — Constantin Stanislavski

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. — Paul Valery

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way. — Constantin Stanislavski

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event. — Constantin Stanislavski

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. — Constantin Stanislavski

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive. — Constantin Stanislavski

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors. — Constantin Stanislavski

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants. — Constantin Stanislavski

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going? — Constantin Stanislavski

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles — Constantin Stanislavski

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way. — Constantin Stanislavski

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself. — Constantin Stanislavski

You know you're a writer when the words don't stop! — Joyce Middleton

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. — Idries Shah

Doubt is the enemy of creativeness. — Constantin Stanislavski