Top 25 Viola Spolin Quotes
#1. The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.
Viola Spolin
#2. You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
Joseph Heller
#3. We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.
Viola Spolin
#4. One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.
Viola Spolin
#5. Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger
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#6. Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.
Viola Spolin
#7. May as well have painted the walls black, she thought with some amusement.
Evan Currie
#8. Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.
Viola Spolin
#9. When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#10. I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.
Richard Schiff
#11. That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.
Viola Spolin
#12. It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.
Viola Spolin
#13. Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.
Viola Spolin
#14. It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.
Viola Spolin
#15. The unknown is where we go to find new things and intuition is how we find them.
Viola Spolin
#16. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
Viola Spolin
#17. The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.
Viola Spolin
#18. My vision is a world of accessible intuition.
Viola Spolin
#19. Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
Viola Spolin
#20. When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.
Viola Spolin
#21. General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.
Viola Spolin
#22. A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.
LaDene Mayville
#23. Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.
Viola Spolin
#24. Don't initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.
Viola Spolin
#25. First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.
Viola Spolin
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