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Stella Adler Biography

Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress and acting teacher. She founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City and Los Angeles with longtime protégée, actress Joanne Linville, who continues to teach Adler's technique. Her grandson Tom Oppenheim now runs the school in New York City, which has produced alumni such as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Elaine Stritch, Kate Mulgrew, Kipp Hamilton, and Jenny Lumet.

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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.

Actors, Back, Clothes, Sneakers, Years

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Actors, Experiences, Ideas, Larger, Playwright

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

Blood, Hurt, Pain, Retreat, Tell

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.

Acting, Illogical, Imagination, Make, Scientists, Way

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.

Call, Forget, Forget You, Needs, Securely, Technique

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.

Country, Ego, Live, Providing, Queen, Queens

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

Class, Death, Excuse, Performance, Performances

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

Experience, Experiences, Inner, Precious

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

Actor, Actors, Agreeable, Comfortable, Imagination, Real

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

Afford, Classroom, Confine, Studies, Study, Worldliness

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.

Acting, Important, Listen, Sense, Whole, World

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.

Arrogance, Conceit, Life, Secret, Who I Am

Your talent is in your choice.

Choice, Choices, Talent

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

Important, Play, Plays, Teach, Theatre, Understand

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.

Acting, Develop, Elements, Life, Observe, Quality

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

Actor, Actors, Feels, Long

It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!

Hercules, Identity, Important, Know, Life, Like

Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

Acting, Allows, Life, Profession, Real, World

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor. '

Actors, Deepest, Grow, Needs, Truest, Want

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.

Character, Create, Creative, Imagination, Past

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