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.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. - Sanford Meisner
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
- Sanford Meisner
You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses. - Sanford Meisner
You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. - Sanford Meisner
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
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 … - Sanford Meisner
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 …
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. - Sanford Meisner
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting. - Sanford Meisner
The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.
If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper. - Sanford Meisner
If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.
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… - Sanford Meisner
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…
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words. - Sanford Meisner
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.
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