Author: Stella Adler

Quotes

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

- Stella Adler

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

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

- Stella Adler

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

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

- Stella Adler

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.

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

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.

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

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

- Stella Adler

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 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

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