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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
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Stella Adler
Age: 91 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 10
Died: 1992
Died: December 21
Actress
Drama Teacher
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
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It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.
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I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.
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Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job.
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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.
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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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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.
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Your talent is in your choice.
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Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.
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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.
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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
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You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
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Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.
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Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.
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The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
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The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
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You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
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