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Konstantin Stanislavisky
Russian
Actor
About the author
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Love
#Art
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Wisdom
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Theatre
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Life
#Spirit
#Creation
#Actor
#Feelings
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Nothing
#Talent
#Attention
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Actor
#Laws
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.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Work
#Will
#Traditions
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Words
#Word
#Painting
#Sound
#Speech
#Perspective
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Konstantin Stanislavisky,
Russian
Actor
#Actors