Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

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• All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Real, Theatre, Action

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

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  Interesting, Actors, Thousand

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• The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

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  Character, Play, Giving

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

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  Imagination, Use, Actors

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• The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

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  Communication, Keys, Soul

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• Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part.

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  Real, Artist, Exception To The Rule

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• Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

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  Play, Theatre, Wells

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• 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.

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  Break Up, Originality, Tradition

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

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  Interesting

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.25, A&C Black

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• 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 worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

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  Life, Art, Doors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.215, A&C Black

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• Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

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  Love, Art

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• What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

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  Important

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• Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Crafts

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• When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

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  Character, Unhappy, Looks

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

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  Doubt, Enemy, Creativeness

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Creating a Role”, p.68, A&C Black

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• When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

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  Moving, Inspiration, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.268, A&C Black

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• When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.

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  Stage, Here And Now

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• In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond.

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  Philosophy, Two, Common Purpose

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Creating a Role”, p.193, A&C Black

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• 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 the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art.

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  Art, Inspiration, Differences

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• 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.

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  Play, Actors, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

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  Acting, Actors, Remember

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

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  Two, Roles, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

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  Actors, Language, Feels

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Creating a Role”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

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  Artist, Interesting, Desire

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.38, A&C Black

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• Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

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  Inspiration, Mind, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.78, A&C Black

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