To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.' — Stella Adler Actor 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 Actor Copy Share Image
It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent. — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death. — Stella Adler Class 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 Actor Copy Share Image
Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you… — Stella Adler Character Copy Share Image
“...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is… — 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
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 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 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
You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not… — 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 Acting 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 Acting 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… — Stella Adler Acting Copy Share Image
Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study … It means you have to read, you have… — 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… — Stella Adler Actors Copy Share Image
