Best 5 quotes of Konstantin Stanislavski on MyQuotes

Everyone at every minute of his life must feel something. Only the dead have no sensations.

It is not enough to discover the secret of a play, its thought and feelings—the actor must be able to convert them into living terms.

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

The actor does not live, he plays. He remains cold toward the object of his acting but his art must be perfection.

The verbal text of a play, especially one by a genius, is the manifestation of the clarity, the subtlety, the concrete power to express invisible thoughts and feelings of the author himself. Inside each and every word there is an emotion, a thought, that produced the word and justifies its being there.