Sanford Meisner Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

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

  Sanford Meisner

  Roots, Acting, Sculpture

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

• 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.

  Sanford Meisner

  Fake, Theatre, Acting

  "Sanford Meisner on 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.

  Sanford Meisner

  Beach, Rivers, Acting

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