Stella Adler Quotes

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death