Konstantin Stanislavski Quotes

“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.”

“Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.”

“Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”

“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act.”

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

“The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.”

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

“If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!”