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Lee Strasberg Quotes: Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
         

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.


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Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.



Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.



If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?



The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.



Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.



The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.



Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.



A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.



An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.





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Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

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The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.



I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

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There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.



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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.



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