Stella Adler
Stella Adler
Stella Adler was an American actress and acclaimed acting teacher. She founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City and Los Angeles with longtime protégée, actress Joanne Linville, who continues to teach Adler's technique. Her grandson Tom Oppenheim now runs the school in New York City, which has produced alumni such as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Elaine Stritch, Kate Mulgrew, Kipp Hamilton, and Jenny Lumet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth10 February 1901
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The play is not in the words, it’s in you!
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.
An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
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.
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death
You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
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.
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.
Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.
The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.
You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.
You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.
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.