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The actor has to develop his ...

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.

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One way we can enliven the im...

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 68 quotes

When you stand on the stage y...

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

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When you most succeed, you do...

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

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By taking elements you observ...

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.

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Actors need a kind of aggress...

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.

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You have to get beyond your o...

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.

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Your job as actors is to unde...

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

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Don’t use your conscious past...

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.

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Life beats down and crushes th...

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

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Your curse is that you have ch...

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.

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To grow: that is your deepest ...

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

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Life in the theatre isn't nece...

Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.

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You act with your soul. That's...

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

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The only excuse for not coming...

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

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Life is boring. The weather is...

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

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Happy children should not try ...

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.

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The play is not in the words, ...

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

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Your talent is in your choice....

Your talent is in your choice.

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When an acting teacher tells a...

When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about.

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