Stanislavsky Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Truth in art is truth n circumstances. — Konstantin Stanislavsky

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. — Lee Strasberg

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy. — Konstantin Stanislavski

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