Constantin Stanislavski
Constantin Stanislavski
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavskywas a Russian actor and theatre director. The Stanislavsky system would inspire numerous acting teachers in America whose teachings became a dominant force in film acting, especially in the period after World War II...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth17 January 1863
CountryRussian Federation
art alive stage
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.
actors ordinary born
I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.
play want actors
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.
choices borders psychotic
Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.
character play partners
Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.
new-york wall dad
The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.
lying eye reality
In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.
character events arches
The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.
taken interesting support
I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!
pain perspective important
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
success real lying
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
stress achieve muscles
At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles
art stars roots
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.
attention talent periods
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.