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.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

Konstantin Stanislavski Quotes

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.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

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

— Konstantin Stanislavski

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

— Konstantin Stanislavski

Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

When you’re playing a character who’s cruel, look for the places where he’s kind. When you’re playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

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.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

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.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is that the actor wants at any given moment.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

Don’t go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

All art is autobiographical – if it’s not, it’s not going to quicken on-stage, and it’s not going to come alive.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I’ve persisted.

— Konstantin Stanislavski

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

— Konstantin Stanislavski
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