An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — 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 Actor Copy Share Image
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself. — Stella Adler Both sides Copy Share Image
“The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.” — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has… — Stella Adler Author Copy Share Image
The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone… — Stella Adler Actor 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 Acting Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. — Stella Adler Achievement 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 Acting Copy Share Image
Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language… — Stella Adler Actors Copy Share Image
Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study … It means you have to read, you have… — 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 Acting 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 Acting Copy Share Image
You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not… — 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 Acting 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 Acting Copy Share Image