Lee Strasberg Quotes

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

Lee Strasberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 17, 1901 - February 17, 1982

Topics

PreparationStartLogicDoingActing

When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.

Joe Jonas

LearnMeetTryAlwaysSomethingFan

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Jill Lepore

ProblemMoralPresidentKeepGotHe

More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones.

Robert J. Waldinger

ConnectionsLovedMoreEmotional

What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument.

John Ralston Saul

FreeYouArgumentBlack-And-White

There's something incredibly vulnerable about middle school for me. We're really impressionable during that period. The cement's still wet, so to speak, and a lot of things later in life are born during that season.

Mat Kearney

LifeSchoolMeSpeakBornMiddle

I watch comedies most of the time. That's what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I'm not really sure why.

Julia Stiles

TimePeopleMeThinkWhySee

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

Drew Barrymore

GoodWifeNew YorkGoNewTry

The National Action Party, in many ways, emulated the PRI in the way in which it conducted itself in government, supporting corporatist leaders, supporting corrupt oil worker union leaders.

Denise Dresser

GovernmentActionPartyWayOil

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

Colonel Sanders

YouAppleReadyPieSteakTell

The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.

Peter Bergen

FamilyMoneyHimOverYearsCut

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Richard P. Feynman

AttitudeLiveGreatValueMindKnow

A lot of people decide, if you're mixed, you're black. And so they try to force you to choose a culture.

Kendrick Sampson

CulturePeopleBlackYouChooseTry

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