Michael Chekhov Quotes About Acting

• An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

  Michael Chekhov

  Acting, Actors, Ease

• The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

  Michael Chekhov

  Imagination, Acting, Actors

• Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING

  Michael Chekhov

  Real, Acting, Inspired

• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Opposites, Play

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