Quotes About Lee Strasberg

#1. I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.

Karen Allen

#2. I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

Paul Henreid

#3. For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

Johnny Depp

#4. There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.

Al Pacino

#5. January 21: Marilyn returns to New York and visits Lee Strasberg.

Carl Rollyson

#6. Never tell. Not if you love your wife ... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do ...

Lenny Bruce

#7. Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

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#8. A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

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#9. The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

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#10. If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

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#11. Success is the best builder of character.

Adolph Rupp

#12. I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

Francis Ford Coppola

#13. I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the words are important.

Mark Margolis

#14. Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

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#15. Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

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#16. The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

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#17. I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

Sally Field

#18. I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.

Roger Staubach

#19. I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.

Karen Allen

#20. An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

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#21. Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.

Samuel Johnson

#22. I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Patricia Heaton

#23. I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

Ellen Barkin

#24. Elite competitors manage their unconscious minds by mastering their conscious thoughts.

Stan Beecham

#25. Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

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#26. Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

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#27. If God's the type of guy that would damn you to Hell just for loving someone, then I wouldn't want to spend eternity with Him, anyway.

Colleen Hoover

#28. As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.

Daniella Alonso

#29. Art is longer than life.

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#30. The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

Peter J. Carroll

#31. There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

James Lipton

#32. Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

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