Adler Quotes

• 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

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  6 Copy quote

• I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

  Judd Nelson

  New York, School, Years

  7 Copy quote

• Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

  Marie Windsor

  Years, Acting, Stella

  7 Copy quote

• The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

  Alfred Adler

  Names, Common Sense, Psychology

  22 Copy quote

• Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Tasks, Quests, Taught

  "Optimism Or Overconfidence?" by Blythe McGarvie, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

  357 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take.

  Judd Nelson

  Giving, Kind, Stella

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  Salma Hayek

  Passion, Speak English, United States

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2003.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.

  Robert Davi

  Opera, Singers, Way

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.

  Bill Mollison

  Night, Animal, Opposites

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Degrees, Obsessed, Certain

  "‘Sherlock’ Creators and Benedict Cumberbatch on “Myopically Dark” Season 4 and the Series’ Future". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• (on Marilyn Monroe) I was walking down Broadway with her and nobody was stopping us. She was going to (Stella Adler's) actors' studio, and she was taking me to show me what it was all about. And I said to her: "How come nobody is taking your picture?" She said: "Well, watch." She took her scarf off, straightened her shoulders, and draped something another way, and we were surrounded. It must have been 400 people. And I said: "Now I know why!"

  Liza Minnelli

  People, Watches, Stopping

  FaceBook post by Liza Minnelli from Aug 05, 2013

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the popular European discotheque concept. Johnny Rivers at the Whisky A Go-Go turned Hollywood upside down. His first Imperial album, "Johnny Rivers At The Whisky A Go-Go," (produced by Lou Adler) was high in the charts for 45 weeks in 1964.

  Glenn A. Baker

  Valentine, Rivers, Hollywood

  4 Copy quote

• We [with Cisco Adler] came back to the concept that our music, our lifestyle, and what we stood for was dope. So whoever the show brought to the music, they would stick. It was a way to bring people to the music, and I'm still doing that.

  Shwayze

  Dope, People, Way

  Source: upc.fm

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

  Steven Strait

  New York, Growing Up, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Wisdom, Book, Politics

  4 Copy quote

• You reminded me of a quote that my acting teacher Stella Adler wrote in her book ['The Art of Acting'], which I asked her to sign: "The young actor feels some greatness inside themselves that they want to give back to the world." That resonated with me, but I didn't really understand what she was talking about until much later, in the way you surmised that my struggle to become an actor was from being this kind of introverted young boy.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Teacher, Art, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Drs, Gaps

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Mountain, Boulders

  11 Copy quote

• I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Doors, Directors, Casting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

  Max Greenfield

  Confused, Reality, Giving

  "'New Girl' Star Max Greenfield Writes Special 'Goop' Newsletter for Gwyneth Paltrow" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 18, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west.

  Gary Snyder

  Book, Years, Names

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.

  Michael Richards

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source