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Actors Quotes by Stella Adler
- 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…
- The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
- Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
- Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the…
- No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
- The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on…
- When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely…
- Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.
- Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.
- You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.
- To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'
- The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
- The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.
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