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

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Stella Adler

#Ideas Quotes #Actors Quotes #Playwright Quotes

“As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1911). “The Study of Words”
“You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.”
“The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'”
“Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.”
“It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it.”
“If you ask Jim Courier, I mean, that guy has his tongue up (Roger Federer's) ass, I think...you know, the whole time when you actually listen to him commentating or listen to him talk about Roger Federer. Sometimes makes me sick almost.”
“I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.”
“Even as a young girl, straight women loved me. Straight women like me a lot more than lesbians do. Isn't that weird?”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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