Quotes from Viola Spolin

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

A highly competitive atmosphere creates artificial tensions, and when competition replaces participation, compulsive action is the result.

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.