Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
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Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.”
Source: Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”
Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
“To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.”