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Life Quotes by Stella Adler
- Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
- The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and…
- 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…
- In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of…
- The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
- Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck…
- Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you…
- By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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 when you are…
- The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
- The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle