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