The teacher has to inspire, to agitate. You cannot teach acting. You can only stimulate what's already there. - Stella Adler

Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

Acting requires a creative and compassionate attitude. It must aim to lift life up to a higher level of meaning and not tear it down or demean it. The actor's search is a generous quest for that larger meaning. That's why acting is never to be done passively.

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.