AN ACTOR'S DAILY PRACTICE

The focus of the actor's attention on achieving "mutual understanding" in daily life with others, is the same as how the world-class writer, painter, and musician each engage in private daily practice to achieve there excellent works. Each engage in conscious and focused daily practice of the skills required to achieve excellence in their craft. - José Angel Santana

The first prerequisite of stage presence is the ability to control our own attention, to use our will-power to focus our attention on the object we have selected." - I. Rapoport, in Acting: A Handbook of the Stanislavski Method

"What is the essence of the actor's work and the theatre itself, inasmuch as the actor constitutes the essential part of the latter? The basis of everything is action...However, the very fact that these truths enter our consciousness does not assure their proper assimilation...A purely intellectual mastery of these ideas does not add anything to the actor...he will not be able to understand it unless he makes this knowledge a part of his living organism, unless he comes to feel it in 'his hide'..." - I. SUDAKOV, in Acting: A Handbook of the Stanislavski Method