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
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
