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Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.

Constantin Stanislavski

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Constantin Stanislavski
Age: 75 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 5
Died: 1938
Died: August 7
Actor
Director
Film Director
Pedagogue
Stage Actor
Teacher
Theatrical Director
Theatrologist
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski
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In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond.
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Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.
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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.
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In the given circumstances you must be rooted in the play. Do not depart from the play. Don't cut yourself off from your partner in the scene, or partners.
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You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.
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In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel
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In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.
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Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.
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In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play the mother, the actor pregnant with the part and the child, the role to be born.
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When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.
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Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
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Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.
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The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
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The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.
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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 worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.
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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.
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I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.
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I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!
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