88 Quotes by Stella Adler

Acting is reacting.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

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.

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

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.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

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

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.