Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

- 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

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 worri…

- Constantin Stanislavski

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

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

- 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

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

- Constantin Stanislavski

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 r…

- Constantin Stanislavski

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 tru…

- Constantin Stanislavski