LEE STRASBERG, the Godfather of acting in America, one of the founders of the Actors Studio and my acting teacher along with Paula Strasberg and Harry Mastergeorge.
"The extraordinary thing about acting is that life itself is actually used to create artistic results. In every other art the means only pretend to deal with reality. Music can often capture something more deeply than any other way, but it only tells you something about reality. Painting tells something about the painter, about the thing painted, and about the combination of the two. But since the actor is also a human being, he does not pretend to use reality. He can literally use everything that exist. The actor uses thought---not thought transcribed into color and line as the painter does, but actual, real thought. The actor uses real sensation and real behavior. That actual reality is the material of our craft."
Lee Strasberg, Actors Studio Session, New York 1960's
Lee & Robert H. Hethmon (ed.) Strasberg
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