John Strasberg

"I was instructed to do everything I could to help her. My soul was now indentured to serve their relationship with Marilyn. At twenty-one, I felt that my career had already been erased."

"To intentionally dream about the world in which the character lives is work which the actor must always do alone; it is then that he establishes the link between himself and the play. This is what I now recognize takes place in the actor’s personal dream space."

"All art is transformational."

"Basic technique is knowing yourself and knowing how to use yourself."

"There are three great teachers of acting - Life, Shakespeare, and Yourself."

"Chaos, doubts, and confusion is normal and signifies the beginning of the creative process"

"The creative process, like anything in life has poetry to it ."

"Life is armonic at its best."

"Stanislavsky is the person who really originated the movement that later inspirated the American Theatre and it was the institutionalization of the Actors studio which made it permanent."

"The fact that people come to a place, where everyone makes that commitment, and they are in the country just changes the atmosphere of work so there is a kind of relaxation and comaradery that is very special. It is a special place."

"If Lee Strasberg took a mainly Freudian approach to the business of acting training, then John Strasberg is Jungian. He works a lot with dreams."

"The thing that I think he thought me he said: "Whatever works for you. You make up your own method"."