A Dream of Passion Quotes

“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.”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

“It is not hard to understand and remember. It is hard to feel and to believe.”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

“Rather, the private moment becomes a starting point for the other exercises that the actor has already practiced. The actor creates the private moment and maintains it as he adds other elements unrelated to it: the overall sensation, a personal object, daily activities, a monologue, a song, and so on. I have the actor do this, however, only after he is capable of creating the private moment with sufficient conviction and commitment. This exercise is one that the actor does until he has accomplished it. The exercise itself usually lasts about an hour, which means that the actor is capable of sustaining it for what would be the length of a long act on the stage or the span of time typically demanded on a movie set.”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

“Something specific Madame told us: "Always have a reason, a problem, a cause for appearing on stage."

Vakhtangov had told his actors that at times it does not really matter what you think as long as you are thinking about something, something real”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

“If a mouse accidentally wanders into a populated area, we see some of the finest acting that human beings are capable of.”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

“This is it. This is what it really means. This is what it is all about.”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

“How do you bring alive the things you perceive?”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method