Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The only journey is the one within.