Constantin Stanislavski
Constantin Stanislavski
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavskywas a Russian actor and theatre director. The Stanislavsky system would inspire numerous acting teachers in America whose teachings became a dominant force in film acting, especially in the period after World War II...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth17 January 1863
CountryRussian Federation
Constantin Stanislavski quotes about
interesting actors thousand
The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.
character play giving
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 rest to portray a convincing life.
imagination actors answers
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
important
What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.
break-up originality tradition
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.
communication keys soul
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.
crafts
Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?
cutting play scene
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.
interesting
Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.
theatre better-person should
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
two way roles
You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.
philosophy two common-purpose
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.
feelings actors stage
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.
actors language feels
In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel