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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

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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.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

~Constantin Stanislavski

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Actor

Born: January 17th, 1863

Died: August 7th, 1938

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