"Acting is in everything but the words."

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Source : Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.51, Hal Leonard Corporation

Stella Adler

“I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.”
“If you beat the Man, who was the Man, then you're the Man.”
“The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.”

Source : "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.”
“What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?”
“Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.”
“... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.37, New York Review of Books
“You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.”

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