88 Quotes by Stella Adler

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    You will fail. That’s great. Here’s a secret for you – that’s the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

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    You’ll begin to act when you can forget your technique – when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

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

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    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.

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    It’s not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

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    If you can’t take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

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    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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    Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can’t do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

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    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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