Stella Adler Quotes

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  Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

  Stella Adler

  Topics in Art, Life, Soul

  Tags in Artist, Creativity

• 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

  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Afford, Actor, Feelings, Choice

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

  Stella Adler

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Ideas, Actor

• Your talent is in your choice.

  Stella Adler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talent, Choice

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Actor, Voice, Important

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stand, Stage, Important

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientists, Leap, Imagination

• A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

  Stella Adler

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Uses, Drug, Body

• The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

  Stella Adler

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Social, Theatre

• The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

  Stella Adler

  Topics in Life, Truth

  Tags in Social

• 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

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Theatre, Greeks

• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

  Stella Adler

  Tags in Precious, Inner

Stella Adler (12)

Birth:	10th February, 1901
Death:	21st December, 1992
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Screenwriter, Teacher

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