53 Quotes by Konstantin Stanislavski

The greatest wisdom is to realize one’s lack of it.

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

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.

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.

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

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

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.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel.