Stella Adler Quotes About Theatre

Quotes about: Theatre

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

  Stella Adler

  Theatre, Acting, Talent

• 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

  Mean, People, Greek

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

  Stella Adler

  Spiritual, Theatre, Rays

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.30, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

  Stella Adler

  Play, Theatre

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.80, Hal Leonard Corporation

• 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.

  Stella Adler

  Character, Past, Imagination

  "‘The Truth of Your Art Is in Your Imagination’" by Rue Faris Drew, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 1976.

• 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

  Play, Theatre, Want

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.67, Hal Leonard Corporation

• The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

  Stella Adler

  Play, Theatre, Important

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

  Stella Adler

  Heart, Mean, Creating

• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, Greek, Theatre

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.29, Hal Leonard Corporation

• Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

  Stella Adler

  Growth, Theatre, Actors

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