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The Art of Acting QUOTES

The Art of Acting QUOTES

1 " You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

2 " You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

3 " You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier could stand on his head and still not be you. Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body. We don't need for you to imitate anybody, because that would be second best. And second best is no better than your worst. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

4 " 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. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

5 " You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

6 " 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. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

7 " No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

8 " You'll never really be great unless you aim high. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

9 " If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

10 " Be innocent, wise and ninety-five. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

11 " 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. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

12 " When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

13 " 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 "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

14 " 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. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

15 " Acting is reacting. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

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

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

17 " The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

18 " Acting is in everything but the words. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

19 " Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting

20 " 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. "

― Stella Adler , The Art of Acting