30 Quotes by Viola Spolin

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it -benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.