"You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously."

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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.260, Hal Leonard Corporation

Stella Adler

#Technique Quotes #Needs Quotes #Forget You Quotes

“Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.”
“The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.”
“The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner will ever presume to infer from it any single fact, and alter or add to the phenomena, in any single particular.”
“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we donâ€™t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?”
“Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.”
“A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.”
“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.”
“I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.”

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