“Stella is theatrical royalty who instills in her students a sense of the nobility of acting. She dares her students to act, to lift their bodies and their voices, to be larger than themselves, to love language and ideas.”

— Stella Adler

Foster Hirsch, "A Method to Their Madness" (1984), quoted in http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/22/obituaries/stella-adler-91-an-actress-and-teacher-of-the-method.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm <br class="br">About

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American actress and teaching coach 1901–1992

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