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Inspirational Quotes by Stella Adler
- You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
- 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!
- You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
- Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.
- Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.
- Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
- When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.
- Acting is in everything but the words.
- You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.
- No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
- If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.
- Your talent is in your choice.
- The play is not in the words, it’s in you!
- Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.
- The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.
- The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento