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Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov QUOTES

Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov QUOTES

1 " The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need. "

― Stella Adler , Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

2 " The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. "

― Stella Adler , Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

3 " ...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death. "

― Stella Adler , Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

4 " We are in danger, all of us, and I will give you an example why—a journalist I knew years ago. He was a good journalist. He went around the world and recorded what he saw and came to various conclusions. He said, Paris is this and London is that—and Greece is worth a couple of days. He felt two days was enough to give him an understanding of Greece. What that statement reveals is that the basis of our Western culture now, and of professional man, is middle-class. The middle class makes statements and knows nothing. You and I are the middle class and must think of ourselves as middle-class. We are middleclass actors, middle-class journalists, middle-class plumbers and morticians. The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen. "

― Stella Adler , Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov