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The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. — Stella Adler

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 the social situation. — Stella Adler

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life. — Stella Adler

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous. — Stella Adler

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death. — Stella Adler

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. — Stella Adler

Acting is reacting. — Stella Adler

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.' — Stella Adler

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen. — Stella Adler

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. — Stella Adler

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — Stella Adler

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one — Stella Adler

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent. — Stella Adler

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

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously. — Stella Adler

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings. — Stella Adler

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent. — Stella Adler

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five. — Stella Adler

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life. — Stella Adler

Acting is in everything but the words. — Stella Adler

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. — Stella Adler

Your talent is in your choice. — Stella Adler

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all. — Stella Adler

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

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

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. — Stella Adler

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. — Stella Adler

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 killer in you. — Stella Adler

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself. — Stella Adler

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18. — Robert De Niro

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

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 the stage. — Stella Adler

It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules! — Stella Adler

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring. — Stella Adler

You'll never really be great unless you aim high. — Stella Adler

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

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. — Stella Adler

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing. — Stella Adler

We dress the way we think. — Stella Adler

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler. — Judd Nelson

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