Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

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Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

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If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

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You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

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Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

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The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

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Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre …

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An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

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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 yo…

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