Acting Quotes by Stella Adler

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

— Stella Adler

Acting is in everything but the words.

— Stella Adler

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

— Stella Adler

“The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.”

— Stella Adler

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor…

— Stella Adler

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

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth…

— Stella Adler

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

— Stella Adler

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

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 can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life.…

— Stella Adler

“...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is…

— Stella Adler

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you…

— Stella Adler

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

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

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for…

— Stella Adler