It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
“The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.” — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
“...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life.… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life,… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.' — Stella Adler Copy Share
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to… — Stella Adler Copy Share
Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles… — Stella Adler Copy Share
Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study … It means you have to read, you have to observe,… — Stella Adler Copy Share
It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules! — Stella Adler Copy Share
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. — Stella Adler Copy Share
You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon… — Stella Adler Copy Share
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life… — Stella Adler Copy Share
You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life. — Stella Adler Copy Share
Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows… — Stella Adler Copy Share
