Sanford Meisner Quotes

You can’t learn to act unless you’re criticized. If you tie that Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

You can’t learn to act unless you’re criticized. If you tie that

— Sanford Meisner

The text is your greatest enemy. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

The text is your greatest enemy.

— Sanford Meisner

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That’s Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That’s

— Sanford Meisner

The American actor is very lucky… Because so little is asked of him. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

The American actor is very lucky… Because so little is asked of him.

— Sanford Meisner

Acting can be fun. Don’t let it get around. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Acting can be fun. Don’t let it get around.

— Sanford Meisner

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly

— Sanford Meisner

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

— Sanford Meisner

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it’s not Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it’s not

— Sanford Meisner

That’s very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

That’s very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.

— Sanford Meisner

You don’t pick up cues, you pick up impulses. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

You don’t pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

— Sanford Meisner

The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to

— Sanford Meisner

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

— Sanford Meisner

Listen with your gut, not your head. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Listen with your gut, not your head.

— Sanford Meisner

WHY is the most important word in an actor’s vocabulary. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

WHY is the most important word in an actor’s vocabulary.

— Sanford Meisner

Act before you think – your instincts are more honest than your thoughts. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Act before you think – your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

— Sanford Meisner

You know it’s all right to be wrong, but it’s not all right not to try. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

You know it’s all right to be wrong, but it’s not all right not to try.

— Sanford Meisner

Acting is not talking, it’s living off the other fellow!!! Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Acting is not talking, it’s living off the other fellow!!!

— Sanford Meisner

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself – Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself –

— Sanford Meisner

The foundation of acting is the reality of doing. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.

— Sanford Meisner

With a developed imagination there’s no place you can’t go. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

With a developed imagination there’s no place you can’t go.

— Sanford Meisner

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an

— Sanford Meisner

Find in yourself those human things which are universal. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Find in yourself those human things which are universal.

— Sanford Meisner

Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.

— Sanford Meisner

If you have the emotion, it infects you and the audience. If Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

If you have the emotion, it infects you and the audience. If

— Sanford Meisner

Every little moment has a meaning all its own. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Every little moment has a meaning all its own.

— Sanford Meisner

That which hinders your task is your task. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

That which hinders your task is your task.

— Sanford Meisner

Acting is fun… don’t let that get around! Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Acting is fun… don’t let that get around!

— Sanford Meisner

Courage means willing to risk everything. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Courage means willing to risk everything.

— Sanford Meisner

There’s no such thing as nothing. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

There’s no such thing as nothing.

— Sanford Meisner

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

— Sanford Meisner

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

— Sanford Meisner

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always

— Sanford Meisner

Don’t be an actor. Be a human being who works off what Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Don’t be an actor. Be a human being who works off what

— Sanford Meisner

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that

— Sanford Meisner

Being an actor is a religious calling because you’ve been given the Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

Being an actor is a religious calling because you’ve been given the

— Sanford Meisner

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation. Sanford Meisner Picture Quote

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.

— Sanford Meisner

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