Theatre Stella Adler Quotes & Sayings

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 — Stella Adler

Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain. — C.S. Lewis

You'll never really be great unless you aim high. — Stella Adler

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak. — Chrisse Feros

Discipline is a vital aspect of growth, but of equal importance is praise. — Asa Don Brown

In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves - the mating of the sexes, the rearing of the young, the laws of the state. — G.K. Chesterton

I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll. — Bessie Smith

Those words are not a magical formula. They're not going to open my heart to you. — Charlaine Harris

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.] — Jean De La Fontaine

People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature. — Jared Kushner

I've styled and restyled my hair. I've curled it and then straightened it. I look at myself in the mirror and sigh. I try to curl it again with the styling brush but the brush gets tangled and I can't get the bloody thing out. After telling myself not to panic I go into panic mode as the smell of singeing hair wafts up my nose. What's the bloody point of having release buttons on the damn things when they don't bloody release? Seconds later I tug the thing out along with several tufts of hair. I — Lynda Renham

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it. — Elizabeth McGovern

Acting is in everything but the words. — Stella Adler

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier could stand on his head and still not be you. Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body. We don't need for you to imitate anybody, because that would be second best. And second best is no better than your worst. — Stella Adler

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. — Pope Paul VI

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. — Stella Adler

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. — 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 most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. — Stella Adler

And where does god get the nerve from
telling people how to rear their children
when he drowned his own? — A.J. Beirens

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. — Stella Adler

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked. — William Quigley

Acting requires a creative and compassionate attitude. It must aim to lift life up to a higher level of meaning and not tear it down or demean it. The actor's search is a generous quest for that larger meaning. That's why acting is never to be done passively. — Stella Adler

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. — Stella Adler

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books. — Harvey Keitel

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

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. — Stella Adler

I think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg. — Christian Finnegan

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