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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
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
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.
— 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
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
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
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
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
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
— Stella Adler
We dress the way we think.
— Stella Adler