Over the course of her remarkable life, Stella Adler has been an actor, a teacher, and a director. She is most notably known for her work as actress and founding member of the Actors Studio in New York City. Her teachings have influenced some of Hollywood’s most notable actors including Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro. Stella Adler was born on October 17th 1902 to Jacob Pincus Lehrman and Sarah Rozin Lehrman in Brooklyn New York. The youngest daughter of four children she grew up with three sisters; Dorothy (b: 1906), Helen (b: 1909), and Johanna or Janice (b: 1915). It was during this time that Stella developed an interest in acting which
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Acting is in everything but the words. — Stella Adler
Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can’t do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you. — Stella Adler
The theatre–acting, creating, interpreting–means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. — Stella Adler
By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don’t ordinarily call upon in your personal life. — 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. — Stella Adler
STELLA ADLER QUOTES ABOUT ACTORS
To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, ‘I want to be an actor.’ — Stella Adler
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what’s beneath the word. — Stella Adler
Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous. — Stella Adler
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. — Stella Adler
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler
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. — Stella Adler
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler
The actor must be full of passion. If he’s too cool he’s better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage. — Stella Adler
Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don’t be only one–sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you. — 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. — Stella Adler
Inspiring Phrases From Stella Adler
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. — Stella Adler
Don’t use your conscious past. 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 have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. — Stella Adler
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Be innocent, wise and ninety–five. — Stella Adler
In life, as on the stage, it’s not who I am but what I do that’s the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit. — Stella Adler
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring. — 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
Various Statements From Stella Adler
It’s not important to know who you are. It’s important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules! — Stella Adler
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. — Stella Adler
You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life. — 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. — Stella Adler
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. — Stella Adler
You act with your soul. That’s why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life. — Stella Adler
