Stella Adler Quotes

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• Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

  Stella Adler

  Growth, Theatre, Actors

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

  Stella Adler

  Life, Music, Crush

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job.

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  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.85, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Acting is in everything but the words.

  Stella Adler

  Acting

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.51, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

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  Failing, Ifs

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.38, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Voice

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.19, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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.

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  Mean, People, Greek

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• The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

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  Class, Excuse, Performances

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.341, Vintage

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• 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

  Sweet, Nice, Average

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.226, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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.

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  Technique, Needs, Forget You

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.260, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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.

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  Important, Acting, World

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.22, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

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  Feelings, Action, Emotion

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.139, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

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  Soul, Actors, Want

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Experience

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

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  Jobs, Actors, Size

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.233, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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 with your own life. It’s too little.

  Stella Adler

  Character, Past, Imagination

  "‘The Truth of Your Art Is in Your Imagination’" by Rue Faris Drew, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 1976.

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• 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 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about.

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  Teacher, Real, Character

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• Your talent is in your choice.

  Stella Adler

  Choices, Talent

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• It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

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  Theatre, Acting, Talent

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• Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

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  Children, Loneliness, Heart

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.87, Vintage

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• 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 to understand more than just what life provides you.

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  Real, Acting, World

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.83, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

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  Aim High, Aim

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.32, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

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  Weather, Actors, Life Is

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Imagination, Acting, Way

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.71, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

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  Needs, Actors, Want

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