Sanford Meisner Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

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  Thinking, Acting, Honest

• Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

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  Acting, Circumstances, Imaginary

• An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

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  Theatre, Acting, Pounds

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.4, Vintage

• Every little moment has a meaning all its own.

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  Acting, Littles, Moments

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.46, Vintage

• The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

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  Roots, Theatre, Acting

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.45, Vintage

• Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

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  Creative, Acting, Like You

• Find in yourself those human things which are universal.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

• You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

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  Ties, Childhood, Insecurity

• Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

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  Acting, Given, Circumstances

• Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

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  Broken, Acting, Plates

• The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.

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  Reality, Acting, Foundation

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.16, Vintage

• The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you develop you become confident. You come to believe in what you're doing and trust it because it's out of you.

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  Believe, Emotional, Theatre

• The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

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  Roots, Acting, Sculpture

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.42, Vintage

• Acting is fun. Don't let that get around.

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  Fun, Acting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• I'll tell you this: you cannot escape the impact of emotion, whether it's in a big theater or a tiny one. If you have it, it inflates you — correction, 'inflates' is not a good word. If you have it, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it — don't bother; just say the lines as truthfully as you are capable of doing. You can't fake emotion. It immediately exposes the fact that you ain't got it.

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  Fake, Theatre, Acting

  "Sanford Meisner on Acting".

• Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!

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  Talking, Acting, Fellows

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.42, Vintage

• Acting can be fun. Don't let it get around.

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  Fun, Acting

• Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.

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  Beach, Rivers, Acting

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