The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. — 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
The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone… — Stella Adler Actor 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 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
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. — Stella Adler Achievement Copy Share Image
Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being… — Stella Adler Actor 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
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
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 Author 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 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
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
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — Stella Adler Drugs 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 Hercules Copy Share Image
I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen. — Stella Adler Communist Copy Share Image
You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing. — Stella Adler Education 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 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
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 Actor Copy Share Image
