Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little. — 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, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest'… — 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
