Graduate of the Institute of Theatre and Film "I.L.Caragiale" (class of 1956, prof. Nicolae Bălţăţeanu).
"George Constantin carves any role directly in stone; and he cuts the stone sternly, brutally, he strikes it a precise and merciless blow, without consideration for the fine little veins that show just how empty the stone is on the inside or how eroded the part is here and there due to the caries of the implausible. (…)
Each time he performs an act worthy of Pygmalion, tenaciously and feistily endowing life to the stone, without, however, falling in love with his one work of art in the last act. Could this be the place from where the force of this local Orson Welles stems from? Could this account for his Olympian serenity?” (Sanda Faur,
Almanah Cinema 1970).
“He was a mixture of opposites, of bits and pieces, of solitudes. A hidden loneliness, quiet, painful… that released energies and eruptions, the shivers of excess, the risks he would offer to joy. A soul built from fears, fragile and impulsive, hungry for life, proud of his torments, lucid and caustic when it came to interpretations, voluptuously lighting his abysses in order to attain a complete loneliness. A giant body showed him the way. He groomed himself neatly and elegantly, a distinguished manliness resulted from complexes… They were on an adventure together. He came from some place, from a dew of innocence, but armored in a dazzling sense of cynicism. A brutal yet refined vitality had managed to take control over him and watch over the intimate ceremony of inner burnings. He thought through his senses, casting nobility over his cravings and forcing them to take Communion. (…) Vulnerable, sentimental, mysterious, he dazed. He was uncontainable and… he lived on Talent.” (
Alexa Visarion, excerpt from
"Goana pe nisip")
