Stella Adler Quotes

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• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and…
• When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so…
• The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
• The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.
• The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work…
• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material…
• One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical,…
• In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of…
• It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.
• It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!
• An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
• The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
• The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
• 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…
• You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
• Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.
• You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it…
• You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

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