Stella Adler

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

— Stella Adler

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

— Stella Adler

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

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.

— Stella Adler

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

— Stella Adler

The teacher has to inspire, to agitate. You cannot teach acting. You can only stimulate what's already there.

— Stella Adler

Your talent is in your imagination. The rest is lice.

— Stella Adler

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

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.

— Stella Adler

You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

— Stella Adler

Get a stage tone, darling, an energy. Never go on stage without your motor running.

— Stella Adler