Quotes by Stella Adler

• The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
• 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.
• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
• The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
• The play is not in the words, it's in you!
• The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
• Your talent is in your 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.
• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
• 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.
• A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
• 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.
• 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.
• The beauty of life lies in its unpredictability, embrace the unknown with open arms and watch miracles unfold.
• Dare to be different, for in your uniqueness lies your strength and power to inspire others.
• Life is an adventure meant to be fully lived, not half desperately crossed off a to-do list.