Stanislavsky's Quotes

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

Lee Strasberg

#2. The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

Konstantin Stanislavski

#3. Most American actors are taught the Stanislavsky method ... Method acting, but I really think that as an actor you have to develop what works for you. There is really not one way of doing anything. There are many ways of achieving the same goal.

Ving Rhames

#4. I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.

Robert Smith

#5. Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

Konstantin Stanislavsky

#6. Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Thomas More

#7. If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

Takeshi Kaneshiro

#8. When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically 'Texan' identity, one distinct from being 'American.'

Shahzia Sikander

#9. Infinite goes all the way up and all the way down; and at every level, with equal attention, He creates with the full dose of His personality.

N.D. Wilson

#10. I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early ... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.

Vin Diesel

#11. The biggest need that women have is more time. We all want more time in our lives. More time in the morning to get ready. More time in the evening to spend time with our families. All of these things - more time to move up that career path. It's about time.

Renee Ellmers

#12. Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Gil Scott-Heron

#13. The key to fighting isn't lack of passion, it's controlled passion. Care about winning. Care about those you defend. You have to care about something.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#15. And I'll do what I damned well please.

Pam McCutcheon