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Drama Teacher Inspirational Quotes (73)

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There are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are, and the one we have in common
Jacques Lecoq
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The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray this experience. One must surrender entirely to the power of one s artistic nature. It will do all the necessary things. Do not impose any solution upon yourself in advance. The quality to develop in an actor is courage.
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
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An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler
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The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
Stella Adler
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If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
Del Close
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I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.
Stella Adler
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You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
Stella Adler
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Acting is fun. Don't let that get around.
Sanford Meisner
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You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.
Sanford Meisner
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Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.
Stella Adler
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The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.
Stella Adler
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Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!
Sanford Meisner
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When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
Stella Adler
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Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation.
Michael Chekhov
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Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
Sanford Meisner
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You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
Stella Adler
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The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting is concerned, Is boundless sincerity, yet disciplined.
Jerzy Grotowski
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I wasnt political in order to be political
Jerzy Grotowski
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It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!
Stella Adler
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You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.
Sanford Meisner
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When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.
Stella Adler
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It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.
Stella Adler
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In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.
Stella Adler
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Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job.
Stella Adler
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