A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

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

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

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

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

The play is not in the words, it's in you!
Stella Adler

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Stella Adler

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

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


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

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
Stella Adler

Your talent is in your choice.
Stella Adler