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Stella Adler [1901-1992] American

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Actress

Stella Adler 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.

Life, Truth, Art, Imagination

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The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.	Life, Truth	101
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.	Life, Truth	102
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.		103
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.	Art	104
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.		105
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.		106
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.		107
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.		108
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.		109
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.	Imagination	110
Your talent is in your choice.		111
The play is not in the words, it's in you!		112

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