Lee Strasberg Quotes


"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe."
- Lee Strasberg
(Related: Actor, Blood)

"Art is longer than life."
- Lee Strasberg
(Related: Art, Life)

"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."
- Lee Strasberg
(Related: Acting, Being, Habits, Influence)

"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."
- Lee Strasberg
(Related: Actor, Feeling, Prose)

"If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?"
- Lee Strasberg
(Related: Dream, Greatness, Possibility)