34 Quotes by Sanford Meisner

WHY is the most important word in an actor’s vocabulary.

Every little moment has a meaning all its own.

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it’s not about being bigger, it’s about going deeper.

Being an actor is a religious calling because you’ve been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself – another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

Don’t be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Find in yourself those human things which are universal.