No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — 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 Copy Share Image
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. — Stella Adler 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 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 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 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
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. — Stella Adler 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 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 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 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
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
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
To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.' — 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 has to… — Stella Adler 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 of Sophocles… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
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 Image
It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent. — Stella Adler 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 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 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 call upon… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
