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Stella Adler
American
Actress
About the author
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#Truth
#Theatre
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,
American
Actress
#Work
#Mind
#Body
#Actor
#Voice
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
Stella Adler,
American
Actress
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Stella Adler,
American
Actress
#Ideas
#Actors
The play is not in the words, it's in you!
Stella Adler,
American
Actress
#Words
#Play
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Stella Adler,
American
Actress
#Time
#Spiritual
#Theatre
Your talent is in your choice.
Stella Adler,
American
Actress
#Talent
#Choice
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,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Life
#Experience
#Actor
#Choices
#Feelings
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler,
American
Actress
#Life
#Art
#Soul
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#Word
#Truth
#Theatre
A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler,
American
Actress
#Society
#Wrong
#Body
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,
American
Actress
#Imagination
#Scientists
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,
American
Actress
#World
#Sense