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Play well, or play badly, but play truly.
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
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Theatrical Director
Theatrologist
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Konstantin Stanislavskij
Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski
Constantin Stanislavski
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Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski
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More quotes by Constantin Stanislavski
When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.
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 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.
Constantin Stanislavski
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.
Constantin Stanislavski
You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.
Constantin Stanislavski
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.
Constantin Stanislavski
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.
Constantin Stanislavski
Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.
Constantin Stanislavski
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.
Constantin Stanislavski
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.
Constantin Stanislavski
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.
Constantin Stanislavski
When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.
Constantin Stanislavski
In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel
Constantin Stanislavski
Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.
Constantin Stanislavski
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.
Constantin Stanislavski
In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies he sees realities with different eyes from ours.
Constantin Stanislavski
Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.
Constantin Stanislavski
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.
Constantin Stanislavski
It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in the circumstances that surround him, that the deeper sources of his subconscious gently open, and from them come feelings we cannot always analyse.
Constantin Stanislavski
Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.
Constantin Stanislavski
I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.
Constantin Stanislavski
