Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It is not hard to understand and remember. It is hard to feel and to believe.

How do you bring alive the things you perceive?

This is it. This is what it really means. This is what it is all about.

What you are doing on stage is the most important thing in the world at the present moment; and your memory must tell you how it is to be done.

If a mouse accidentally wanders into a populated area, we see some of the finest acting that human beings are capable of.

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.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

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

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.

Art is longer than life.