"Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings."

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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.139, Hal Leonard Corporation

Stella Adler

#Feelings Quotes #Action Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.”
“I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? Itâ€™s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and itâ€™s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.”
“There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.”
“I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.”
“OneÂ way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldnâ€™t keep on, youâ€™llÂ find â€˜em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of â€˜em.”
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
“There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.”

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