Constantin Stanislavski Quotes About Theatre

Quotes about: Theatre

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

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Theatre, Acting, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.253, Routledge

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

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Real, Theatre, Action

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

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Communication, Keys, Soul

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

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Play, Theatre, Wells

• The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Theatre, Noble, Ecstasy

• 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.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Inspiration, Differences

• 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.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Life, Art, Doors

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

• 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 can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Theatre, Firsts

• 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. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Expression

• I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Taken, Interesting, Support

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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