Quotes by Konstantin Stanislavisky

• Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
• The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
• Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
• 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.
• Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.