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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.

— Stella Adler

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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.

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