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
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has… — 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
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
