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Stella Adler Quotes



Quotes by Stella Adler - (14 quotes)

Stella Adler - From the Boredom category:

You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Copying category:

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Emotion category:

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 acting choices and feelings. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Experience category:

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Growth category:

Growth as an [artist] and as a human being are synonymous. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Ideas category:

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Imagination category:

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Importance category:

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Life category:

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Meaning category:

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Performance category:

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Talent category:

In your choices lies your talent. (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Words category:

The play is not in the words, it's in you! (Stella Adler)

Stella Adler - From the Work category:

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 on is his mind. (Stella Adler)