“Sometimes life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one” — 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
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. — 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
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth… — Stella Adler 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 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 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
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 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
