34 Quotes by Sanford Meisner

Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

You don’t pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

You know it’s all right to be wrong, but it’s not all right not to try.

Acting can be fun. Don’t let it get around.

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor’s thoughts and emotions.

Courage means willing to risk everything.

You can’t learn to act unless you’re criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you’ll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

There’s no such thing as nothing.