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 word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.
If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
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.
Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job.
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.
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. 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 ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.