Stella Adler: Actor

Stella Adler was American actress and teaching coach. Explore interesting quotes on actor.

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“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

Source: The Art of Acting

“You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”

Stella Adler

Obituary in New York Times

Life , Weather

“[Adler] established the value of the actor putting himself in the place of the character rather than vice versa … More than anyone else, Stella Adler brought into public awareness all the close careful attention to text and analysis Stanislavski endorsed.”

Stella Adler

Robert Barton, Acting: Onstage and Off (2009), p. 160
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