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
theatre noble ecstasy
The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.
art theatre actors
Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.
theatre better-person should
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
play theatre wells
Play well, or play badly, but play truly.
real theatre action
All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.
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!