You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing. Stella Adler More Quotes by Stella Adler More Quotes From Stella Adler The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. Stella Adler actors real imagination Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. Stella Adler size actors jobs 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. Stella Adler elements quality acting An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. Stella Adler addiction body use Be innocent, wise and ninety-five. Stella Adler ninety innocent wise It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules! Stella Adler important identity life 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. Stella Adler arrogance who-i-am secret To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.' Stella Adler actors want needs The play is not in the words, it’s in you! Stella Adler theatre play Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled you down, you big, sweet, magnificent, young, potential artists. They have pulled you down so far that you are on the verge of destruction. Only you don't know it because you want to be a success Stella Adler artist successful sweet Acting is in everything but the words. Stella Adler acting When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all. Stella Adler seeming succeed 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 pain hurt blood The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. Stella Adler creating heart mean The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. Stella Adler rays theatre spiritual You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. Stella Adler worldliness classroom study You'll never really be great unless you aim high. Stella Adler aim-high aim 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. Stella Adler stage passion actors The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. Stella Adler theatre greek mean The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. Stella Adler training achievement actors
