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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.”
-- Stella Adler

#Voice #Mind #Acting
“You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.”
-- Stella Adler

#Experience
“It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.”
-- Stella Adler

#Acting #Talent #Enough
“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

#Important #Acting #World
“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

#Mean #People #Greek
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
-- Stella Adler

#Life #Music #Crush
“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.”
-- Stella Adler

#Children #Loneliness #Heart
“The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.”
-- Stella Adler

#Ideas #Actors #Playwright
“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

#Imagination #Acting #Way
“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.”
-- Stella Adler

#Real #Acting #World
“When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.”
-- Stella Adler

#Succeed
“You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.”
-- Stella Adler

#Failing
“The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.”
-- Stella Adler

#Real #Real Life #Imagination
“Donâ€™t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I donâ€™t want you to be stuck with your own life. Itâ€™s too little.”
-- Stella Adler

#Character #Past #Imagination
“Your talent is in your choice.”
-- Stella Adler

#Choices #Talent
“The play is not in the words, itâ€™s in you!”
-- Stella Adler

#Play
“The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.”
-- Stella Adler

#Spiritual #Theatre #Rays
“Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”
-- Stella Adler

#Weather #Actors #Life Is
“Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.”
-- Stella Adler

#Play #Theatre #Want
“Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death”
-- Stella Adler

#Hurt #Pain #Blood
“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
“Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.”
-- Stella Adler

#Jobs #Size #Actors
“Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.”
-- Stella Adler

#Feelings #Action #Emotion
“The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.”
-- Stella Adler

#Heart #Mean #Creating
“You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.”
-- Stella Adler

#Giving #Scent #Doe
“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

#Technique #Needs #Forget You
“Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.”
-- Stella Adler

#Wise #Innocent #Ninety
“You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. 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. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.”
-- Stella Adler

#Ideas #Choices #Feelings
“In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.”
-- Stella Adler

#Who I Am #Secret #Arrogance
“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

#Identity #Important #Who You Are

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