When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.
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
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
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
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you. - Constantin Stanislavski
Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. - Constantin Stanislavski
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.
Play well, or play badly, but play truly. - Constantin Stanislavski
Play well, or play badly, but play truly.
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
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.
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
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…
All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. - Constantin Stanislavski
All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.
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
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…
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