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
Social, About, Means, Greeks
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
- Stella Adler
Art, Soul, Beats, Crushes
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
- Stella Adler
Always, Larger, Almost, Playwrights
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
- Stella Adler
Experience, Look, Own, Feelings
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
- Stella Adler
Way, Always, Reasonable, Push
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
- Stella Adler
Truth, Theatre, Social, Situation
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
- Stella Adler
Spiritual, Theatre, Social, X-Ray
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
- Stella Adler
Precious, Own, Get, Inner
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.
- Stella Adler
Sense, Addressing, Whole, Listen
Your talent is in your choice.
- Stella Adler
Talent, Your, Choice
The play is not in the words, it's in you!
- Stella Adler
Play, You, Words
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.
- Stella Adler
Work, Voice, Mind, Develop
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