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Stella Adler Quotes

1901–1992 United States

Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress and an acclaimed acting teacher.

United States
Actresses
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Random Stella Adler quote

9 quotes

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

It takes three things to make it in this business: the tenacity of a bulldog, the hide of a rhinoceros and a good home to come home to.

Get a stage tone, darling, an energy. Never go on stage without your motor running.

Your talent is in your imagination. The rest is lice.

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.

The teacher has to inspire, to agitate. You cannot teach acting. You can only stimulate what's already there.

In your choices lies your talent.

You must get away from the real thing because the real thing will limit your acting and cripple you. To think of your own mother's death each time you want to cry onstage is schizophrenic and sick.

You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stella Adler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.