Lee Strasberg
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"Lee Strasberg" was an United States/American actor, director and acting teacher born in Galicia (Eastern Europe), Austria-Hungary. He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre (New York)/Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective". In 1951, he became director of the non-profit Actors Studio, in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school", and in 1966, was involved in the creation of "Actors Studio West" in Los Angeles.

Although other highly regarded teachers have also taught "The Method", it is Strasberg who is considered the "father of method acting in America," according to author Mel Gussow, and from the 1920s until his death in 1982 "he revolutionized the art of acting by having a profound influence on performance in American theater and movies". From his base in New York, he trained several generations of theatre and film's most illustrious talents, including Barbra Streisand, Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.

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An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

Work for the actor lies in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

Art is longer than life.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

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.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?