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
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
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.
You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.
To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'
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.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.