Stella Adler Quotes

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 most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

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

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.

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

Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job.