To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.' — Stella Adler Actor Copy Share Image
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring. — Stella Adler Actor 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
An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — Stella Adler 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
