"You must get away from the real thing because the real thing will limit your acting and cripple you. To think of your own mother's death each time you want to cry onstage is schizophrenic and sick."

“Your talent is in your imagination. The rest is lice.”

“established the value of the actor putting himself in the place of the character rather than vice versa … More than anyone else, Stella Adler brought into public awareness all the close careful attention to text and analysis Stanislavski endorsed.”

“Get a stage tone, darling, an energy. Never go on stage without your motor running.”

“It takes three things to make it in this business: the tenacity of a bulldog, the hide of a rhinoceros and a good home to come home to.”

“Stella is theatrical royalty who instills in her students a sense of the nobility of acting. She dares her students to act, to lift their bodies and their voices, to be larger than themselves, to love language and ideas.”

“What an extraordinary combination was Stella Adler - a goddess of full of magic and mystery, a child full of innocence and vulnerability.”