Yevgeny Vakhtangov famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray this experience. One must surrender entirely to the power of one s artistic nature. It will do all the necessary things. Do not impose any solution upon yourself in advance. The quality to develop in an actor is courage.
-- Yevgeny Vakhtangov
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
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Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'
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