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To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Stella Adler
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The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most...
When an acting teacher tells a student ‘that wasn’t honest work’ or ‘that didn’t seem real,’ what does...
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come...
Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study …. It means you have...
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world,...
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has...
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
You’ll begin to act when you can forget your technique – when it is so securely inside you...
You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don’t be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good....
Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and...
It’s not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.
The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We’re not scientists. We...
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