56 Quotes by Constantin Stanislavski

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.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

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.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.