A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — Stella Adler Drugs Copy Share Image
I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen. — Stella Adler Communist Copy Share Image
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 Hercules Copy Share Image
You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing. — Stella Adler Education Copy Share Image
Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings. — Stella Adler Action Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one” — Stella Adler Art Copy Share Image
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. — Stella Adler Actor 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 Acting Copy Share Image
Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you… — Stella Adler Character 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 Acting Copy Share Image
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives… — Stella Adler Career 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 Acting Copy Share Image
Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness… — Stella Adler Art Copy Share Image
Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being… — Stella Adler Actor 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 Acting Copy Share Image
Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled… — Stella Adler Artist Copy Share Image
Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself… — 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 Acting Copy Share Image
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death. — Stella Adler Class Copy Share Image
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
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 Actor Copy Share Image
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. — Stella Adler Classroom Copy Share Image
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler Art Copy Share Image
