Lee Strasberg

“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.”

“An actors' tribute to me is in his work.”

“Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.”

“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.”

“Art is longer than life.”

“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.”