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
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.
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.
art play numbers
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.
cutting play scene
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.
play theatre wells
Play well, or play badly, but play truly.
character play giving
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.
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.
choices borders psychotic
Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.
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.