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 Actors 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 Actors Copy Share Image
It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death. — Stella Adler Class 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
An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — Stella Adler Addict Copy Share Image
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. — Stella Adler Classroom 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 Chosen 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
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
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
You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not… — Stella Adler Forget 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
Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you… — Stella Adler Character Copy Share Image
Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled… — Stella Adler Artist 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 Acting Copy Share Image
Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself… — Stella Adler Blood 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 Acting Copy Share Image
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler Art Copy Share Image
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring. — Stella Adler Actors 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
Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings. — Stella Adler Action Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one” — Stella Adler Art Copy Share Image
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. — Stella Adler Actors Copy Share Image
A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — Stella Adler Drugs Copy Share Image
You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing. — Stella Adler Education 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 Identity Copy Share Image
I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen. — Stella Adler Communist Copy Share Image
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
