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 StanislavskiDon't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.
Constantin StanislavskiYou must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.
Constantin StanislavskiIn the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.
Constantin StanislavskiIt is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.
Constantin Stanislavski