The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — 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
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you… — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen. — Stella Adler Communist Copy Share Image
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler Actors 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 Books Copy Share Image
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. — Stella Adler About 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
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness… — Stella Adler Art 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
A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — Stella Adler Drugs Copy Share Image
The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death. — Stella Adler Class 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
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 Contracts 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
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 Acting Copy Share Image
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives… — Stella Adler Career 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
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
