LEE STRASBERG
Generally speaking Strasberg stated that “you the individual” generates what you are doing, not what your partner or the other Actor is doing: ”you” will cry on cue, “you” will remember a past experience, “you” as an individual, generates the work. It is isolated to what you feel and has nothing to do with what the other individual is doing.

STELLA ADLER
Stella Adler believed the process started from the Character you where playing. You would then work back from there; how does the character walk, talk? What time of history is the character living in? What kind of shoes do they wear? Once these questions are answered, she believed you would then find the truth of the work based on these imagined circumstances.

SANFORD MEISNER
Sandy thought Actors had two basic problems; 1. They were self-conscious 2. They don’t listen. So he believed that when you focused your attention on the other person and then allowed them to penetrate your defenses, you would naturally come to life. To him that meant you did not have to try and feel, you did not have to try and get emotional, it would automatically, instinctively happen, truthfully.

Meisner compared Text end emotions with a canoe on a wild river:

The text is a canoe that floats on the river that is your emotions. Its behaviour is dependent on the emotions/river.