This is good advice and all (going to the LA college soon) but I can't get over the fact that she is holding her hair the whole time. Even when yelling.
As a student of Sandy Meisner's, i can tell you that working with people who had studied with Stella Adler was like old home week! We all came out of the same womb, artistically speaking. Sandy & Stella were very close, personally & artistically!
She was an idealist, a position usually ridiculed and yet somehow essential, or art (and humanity) would lose its meaning. I think she was also quite drunk here, but not only does that not preclude the truth, it may even have promoted it. True courage is a rare thing.
its all about stella and uta!!! the women have it! ; fuck strasburg and meisner they use synthetic emotional bullshit to coerce acting when all you have to do is imagine and let it flow.. the end... you dont need to BECOME the character fuck that... if you have real talent you dont need to... you can leave that shit on the stage... you dont need to live as the person for a month to do a 2 hr play... thats bullshit acting :)
Acting should be rewarding and creative. Tell me, how can you bring creativity with Strasberg? And something else to remember: it doesn't matter what actor came out of what school and what method he uses. Everyone is their own creator of their own acting ablities. All I do is give and show you the tools (acting exercises and methods) and the actor decides what to do with them. Stella was a great instructor.
Strasberg works with using a personal object, memories to build "keys" and anchoring them to your body or gesture to bring you an emotion. Yes, it works but how many actors have came out being psychologically damaged? I did his approach in my early days of acting and it depressed me. I didn't enjoy acting. Now with finding the right method for me, I love it more than ever. Acting is all about the creativity, imagination, play and fun. Whatever happened to that?
Strasberg later disowned his theory of those personal objects -- "emotional memory" -- to help the actor, because he realized that as we grow older, events from our past take on certain meanings and this can muddle our acting. (A memory that mortifies me right now might make me laugh hysterically three years from now).
He decided that instead of emotional memory, the actor should imagine a circumstance that will put him in the right mindset.
We can fight and say, "Oh this teacher is better..." this teacher is the best...." however every student will find their best method and what works for them. You can't tell a method actor, "OMG you are so wrong..." to another actor who uses another method. I know all the methods and my best one (and the one that I teach) is M. Chekhov. I say personally that Meisner and Strasberg students work best for telly and the rest of the methods for true acting. Remember, Acting is about being creative.
I happen to agree with you that Chekhov's is the most "creative" Method.
But it's intellectually superficial (and uncreative, too) to generalize so loftily that "every student will find their best method and what works for them".
That's simply and demonstrably . . . not true.
It's the rare student that finds an acting method that works for him in other than a superficial, mechanical, and inconsistent way.
We don't have to "fight" . . . in order to consider why.
@greenrate Why is it intellectually superficial for starlight to say that? Don't you think what you're saying is pretentious? Yes, an actor should be disciplined, but not so technical that the art is lost and a robotic performance is given. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant.
I can't believe this discussion on who is right and blah blah blah. Let me say something. I used to be an actress and now I'm an acting instructor. I have met many international instructors and actors who worked with Adler, Sandy, Stanislaski, Chekhov and Strasberg.
Every teacher has their approach and method. It all came out from the acting main instructor, Stanislaski who then opened up to many different branches of acting methods.
@starlightmayra - Bobby Lewis told us in class that when members of The Group Theater asked Micheal Chekov, circa 1935, about Stanislavski, Chekov said (and I paraphrase) that he really couldn't say, since he hadn't seen him in a few years an that he was always changing. As someone who studied for years with Sandy as well, i can tell you that it is all "elephant parts". The truth is what you yourself experience on day at a time. It takes years to experience very much of it.
Stella Adler was the best teacher, actor, mentor and real life educator I have ever had the pleasure to work with.
Although I am not in full time professional theatre any longer, she taught me how to live, love and appreciate every moment of life. I think of her often.
Read her books, watch any vidio you can and her passion will burn into your soul too and you will be grateful as I am.
Stella Adler, is such an inspiration. She is so right, it's about serving the play! The Theatre is such a beautiful art form, I dislike Actors who use the theatre as a stepping stone to film! Actors like Al Pacino, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Griffiths etc. never forget their roots in the theatre. God bless that woman, forever remembered!
Don't forget Robert Di Niro and Marlon Brando! They each in their own way took what Stella gave them and broke the molds of conventional theatre and film.
My God! What would the art of the actor be today without the likes of Stella Adler! Maybe because I'm rehearsing a play and the issues she brings up here are on my mind, I was so immensely moved. What passion! What truthfulness! At 20, in 1974, right after the play in which I started out as an actor, on my 1st trip to the US, I visited her school in NYC. Sadly, she wasn't there. I've read her book several times over. But I had never seen her teaching. I won't forget this. BRAVO, miltonjustice!
What she's saying may seem too over-the-top, but it's very true. If you REALLY want to be a great actor, you need to choose Theater and leave behind Life because as she says, it's all about undying devotion and dedication to the material you're given.
Stella was right. Personally speaking, I don't wish the actors life on anyone. It is rough and it is tough and it is anything but glamour. If you will be happy being poor all of your life and being able to act in anything that comes up...pay or no pay...and its the ONLY thing you can do in life...try it...otherwise you will suffer.
How will you know if it's really for you?
"A man will get well after he is tired of being sick."
THEY ALL SERVE THE BIGGER IDEA. The entire idea of serving the public so that they can understand the character and the whole point of the story, you serve the bigger theme that is universal. That is what made the guys i mentioned huge, NOT MONEY, NOT GLAMOR, NOT FOR FAME, but serving THE STORY.
to rather serve real stories about greater themes like shakespeare and chekov. Think about it, is it a coincidence that unconventional looking guys like deniro and brando studied with her?
They understood the power of portraying a person truthfully rather than serving yourself. The work like raging bull of a man who disintegrates because of his rage and paranoia from the boxing ring, a man broken in new orleans called stanley, a washed up boxer who rallies against the waterfront.
She has brilliant advice, but I believe a load of actors who studied under Strasberg gave brilliant performances, Al Pacino, James Dean, etc.
I don't know why there has to be so many limits to acting and so many stupid "techniques." They're all positive and negative in their own way, and it gets freaking annoying after she critizes him the 300th time and says he "destroyed" acting.
I know more has beens who 'studied' with Strasberg and he destroyed them! Strasberg was and always will be a phony! Stransberg was a master manipulator from the early days of the group theatre and a whole vunerable generation bought into it! Marilyn Monroe ... poor baby wouldn't go to the bathroom without asking Strasberg or Paula and don't forget they wound up with her estate. Look what they did to their own daughter Susan ... sad case who died a way too early always looking approval.
I've read you've worked with Adler...was she the one who put these ridiculous ideas into your head? You, and even her, forget to mention that Stanisvaskly in his OWN words said in one of his books, :"If it doesn't work for you, throw it out." He knew, then, there were different methods at going about acting. You can say anything you want about Strasberg but you can't deny some of the greatest actors who have studied under him like Al Pacino for example.
No she didn't. My husband studied with him before finding Stella. I know of two people who had nervous breakdowns taking his course. Their selections process for for the money not the talent.
Stella ... as you know ... was the only one to study WITH Stanisvaskly.
As for Al Pacino ... the young Pacino ... wonderful ... Panic In Needle Park ... wow ... but he become very boring and I'm saying this as a subjective choice ... not to impose on anyone.
And she's a very brilliant great teacher, but I think too many acting teachers like her focus too much on hating Strasberg's method. As an aspiring actor, this doesn't make me want to study Adler, this makes me drive away from her since she seems consumed in hating him. I've read her book The Art of Acting and she's brilliant but like Stanisvaskly said. If it doesn't work for you, throw it out. I'd like to know more about your husband though and his work with Strasberg.
You misunderstood me. Stella didn't focus on hating him. Stella focused on the work, on playwrights, script interp (brilliant and unmatched to this day) and bringing the actor up to play and recognize big ideas.
My guy doesn't talk about him. I didn't like him a little bit he was a braggart expecially when being a predator with young women (yes, me too). No regard for my husband standing right beside me! This is my opinion about S. Stella's books on Ibsen and Stringberg are like bibles.
I really don't understand what you're talking about now. Are you saying Strasberg was a predator with YOU?? Wow, should I really trust some random person on Youtube with this? lol
What's your hubby's name?
She did focus on critizing him a lot. It's even said that the day he died she took one moment of silence for him in her class and then went on to say, "It's going to take years to repair what Strasberg did to acting." She just wasn't respectful of him.
I heard that story too. But when I was there she didn't spend any time talking about him. It's a well known fact he was touchy feely with young women. I don't care who know this. Then again this was Hollywood and almost every one in power was like that. It was a five minute conversation and I walked away from him with my hubby. My guy doesn't like or trust the internet and it's not my place to give his name out, especially on this site. FaceBook is also a no-no with him. Cheers
Well, how can I possibly believe you if you don't give out, at least, a last name? Plus, I would expect if he WORKED with someone like Strasberg or Stella Adler he'd be well known in the arts of theater. Why would he randomly be working with him otherwise? also, If it's a well known fact Strasberg did this, can you give me a link or something? Otherwise, your whole post is BS. If you really loved Stella Adler, you'd defend her instead of leave.
Excuse Me? I don't know you and you don't know me and if you think I have to justify myself to anyone for anything, you are sadly mistaken. I didn't say worked in the sense of earning pay, it was pay for acting classes to both and therefore we are able to make these subjective comments. Everybody has opinions, mine is based on fact; of being there and doing ... not reading and judging.
Based on fact? Oh yeah, that's why it's so easy for you to back up your info about Strasberg touching girls with...wait a minute...no links?!? No evidence what so ever? Like I said...how is anyone going too possibly believe you? I want to believe you only in a sense that I want to chat with someone who has been in the presence of these great people as I'm an aspiring actress, but I guess I have to finally comes to terms with your BS. Stop lying to me and yourself. Do you even have a husband? XD
@Knoxvicious - Sandy Meisner said that Stella & Lee were enemies before the Group Theater. Sandy & Stells remained great friends and allies all their lives!
@toby099 - Among other things. Sandy said in later life that Strasberg was the greatest influence on his life. It must have been painful for him to break with Lee and side with Stella when it came to technique. Later, Sandy resented the fact that Lee tried to take credit for the students that he had trained when they went to the Actors Studio. Sandy & Stella remained artistically & personally closer over many years.
this is specifically aimed at people like greenrate. heres the breakdown.
i thought the same shit about her when i studied at the school, but over time i considered her an artist.
if your going to hate someone hate lee strasberg, his whole notion of having beautiful people use "emotional memory" to stimulate and serve themselves is whats bastardized the theatre and certainly movies.
stella here is pretty much stating that actors are artists, not to sell themselves to hollywood, but
Wow -- what a drama queen. Re-lax lady, for heavens' sake (!)
Can't she see . . . that this kind of histrionic intellectualizing is just more of the same kind of self-conscious posing that the Method was supposed to be an antidote for?
Stella Adler inspired me even though she died before I was born (1993). When I get out of HS I might go to her Academy but im thinking about the School of Arts in Southern Florida also.
Think... we.... get.... the.... point!
CurzonRoad 1 week ago
This is good advice and all (going to the LA college soon) but I can't get over the fact that she is holding her hair the whole time. Even when yelling.
So damn funny :)
Hamhark98 4 months ago
WAW this women is amazing.
what a great teacher
LemogangTsipa 10 months ago 4
I loved Stella. I was in her class for 4 years and she was always a hoot. She was an amazing teacher.
iamLydianicole 1 year ago
@iamLydianicole...are you in any movies???
freedomland11 9 months ago
I loved Stella. I was in her class for 4 years and she was always a hoot.
iamLydianicole 1 year ago
As a student of Sandy Meisner's, i can tell you that working with people who had studied with Stella Adler was like old home week! We all came out of the same womb, artistically speaking. Sandy & Stella were very close, personally & artistically!
legatofancier 1 year ago
thats the reason im getting to acting
alexman24893 1 year ago
I love Stella Adler's work! She's right there next to Mesiner, Stnaislovski, Hagen, and Morris.
rodanosamehr 1 year ago
@rodanosamehr do you know any good morris teachers in nyc?
luca11222 1 year ago
@luca11222 bovaactorsworkshop(dot)com/
Morris certified coach in NYC
rodanosamehr 1 year ago
Stella Adler was great I would've love to study with her Come on she studyied with the master STANISLAVSKI
shenkorer 1 year ago
She was an idealist, a position usually ridiculed and yet somehow essential, or art (and humanity) would lose its meaning. I think she was also quite drunk here, but not only does that not preclude the truth, it may even have promoted it. True courage is a rare thing.
owlcu 1 year ago
Very interesting woman. One of the greats. Actortube
Actortube1 1 year ago
I love Stella but she's a little too much for me at times HAHA
TheGreatZurEnRaah 1 year ago
crazy ass brilliant bitch
Orfeo68 1 year ago
@Orfeo68 SOOOO right!
voceangelo 1 year ago
its all about stella and uta!!! the women have it! ; fuck strasburg and meisner they use synthetic emotional bullshit to coerce acting when all you have to do is imagine and let it flow.. the end... you dont need to BECOME the character fuck that... if you have real talent you dont need to... you can leave that shit on the stage... you dont need to live as the person for a month to do a 2 hr play... thats bullshit acting :)
stephy198920011 1 year ago
Acting should be rewarding and creative. Tell me, how can you bring creativity with Strasberg? And something else to remember: it doesn't matter what actor came out of what school and what method he uses. Everyone is their own creator of their own acting ablities. All I do is give and show you the tools (acting exercises and methods) and the actor decides what to do with them. Stella was a great instructor.
starlightmayra 2 years ago
@starlightmayra This comment makes a lot of sense. Actortube
Actortube1 1 year ago
Strasberg works with using a personal object, memories to build "keys" and anchoring them to your body or gesture to bring you an emotion. Yes, it works but how many actors have came out being psychologically damaged? I did his approach in my early days of acting and it depressed me. I didn't enjoy acting. Now with finding the right method for me, I love it more than ever. Acting is all about the creativity, imagination, play and fun. Whatever happened to that?
starlightmayra 2 years ago
Strasberg later disowned his theory of those personal objects -- "emotional memory" -- to help the actor, because he realized that as we grow older, events from our past take on certain meanings and this can muddle our acting. (A memory that mortifies me right now might make me laugh hysterically three years from now).
He decided that instead of emotional memory, the actor should imagine a circumstance that will put him in the right mindset.
AtLastOnTheGround 1 year ago
We can fight and say, "Oh this teacher is better..." this teacher is the best...." however every student will find their best method and what works for them. You can't tell a method actor, "OMG you are so wrong..." to another actor who uses another method. I know all the methods and my best one (and the one that I teach) is M. Chekhov. I say personally that Meisner and Strasberg students work best for telly and the rest of the methods for true acting. Remember, Acting is about being creative.
starlightmayra 2 years ago
@starlightmayra
I happen to agree with you that Chekhov's is the most "creative" Method.
But it's intellectually superficial (and uncreative, too) to generalize so loftily that "every student will find their best method and what works for them".
That's simply and demonstrably . . . not true.
It's the rare student that finds an acting method that works for him in other than a superficial, mechanical, and inconsistent way.
We don't have to "fight" . . . in order to consider why.
greenrate 1 year ago
@greenrate Why is it intellectually superficial for starlight to say that? Don't you think what you're saying is pretentious? Yes, an actor should be disciplined, but not so technical that the art is lost and a robotic performance is given. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant.
emergencyexit16 9 months ago
I can't believe this discussion on who is right and blah blah blah. Let me say something. I used to be an actress and now I'm an acting instructor. I have met many international instructors and actors who worked with Adler, Sandy, Stanislaski, Chekhov and Strasberg.
Every teacher has their approach and method. It all came out from the acting main instructor, Stanislaski who then opened up to many different branches of acting methods.
starlightmayra 2 years ago
@starlightmayra - Bobby Lewis told us in class that when members of The Group Theater asked Micheal Chekov, circa 1935, about Stanislavski, Chekov said (and I paraphrase) that he really couldn't say, since he hadn't seen him in a few years an that he was always changing. As someone who studied for years with Sandy as well, i can tell you that it is all "elephant parts". The truth is what you yourself experience on day at a time. It takes years to experience very much of it.
legatofancier 1 year ago
Stella Adler was the best teacher, actor, mentor and real life educator I have ever had the pleasure to work with.
Although I am not in full time professional theatre any longer, she taught me how to live, love and appreciate every moment of life. I think of her often.
Read her books, watch any vidio you can and her passion will burn into your soul too and you will be grateful as I am.
zazapower 2 years ago
@zazapower shut your fucking moany trap u boring cunt
Mazumune 2 years ago
This shows your lack of breeding and class my man. You certainly didn't study with her!
I forgive you your lack of manners.
zazapower 2 years ago
get off ur fucking high horse you stuck up piece of puss
motherfucka gay ass
Mazumune 2 years ago
Stella Adler, is such an inspiration. She is so right, it's about serving the play! The Theatre is such a beautiful art form, I dislike Actors who use the theatre as a stepping stone to film! Actors like Al Pacino, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Griffiths etc. never forget their roots in the theatre. God bless that woman, forever remembered!
Patrikuse 2 years ago
Don't forget Robert Di Niro and Marlon Brando! They each in their own way took what Stella gave them and broke the molds of conventional theatre and film.
zazapower 2 years ago
I am so proud and thankful to study at her academy... she is such an inspiration
vika9019 2 years ago
that was a funny!
and I do appreciate, it as well.
hairyreddick 2 years ago
Goooo HEAD STELLLLA!!!
BoiLight 2 years ago
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My God! What would the art of the actor be today without the likes of Stella Adler! Maybe because I'm rehearsing a play and the issues she brings up here are on my mind, I was so immensely moved. What passion! What truthfulness! At 20, in 1974, right after the play in which I started out as an actor, on my 1st trip to the US, I visited her school in NYC. Sadly, she wasn't there. I've read her book several times over. But I had never seen her teaching. I won't forget this. BRAVO, miltonjustice!
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monsieurincognito 2 years ago
its not over the top...its passion!
MrJamesPaul1 2 years ago
What's wrong with over the top? You need to be, often. Why put it down? What does it mean, anyway?
zzindorf 2 years ago
this is true. but it's also hysterical!!!
par42918 2 years ago
What she's saying may seem too over-the-top, but it's very true. If you REALLY want to be a great actor, you need to choose Theater and leave behind Life because as she says, it's all about undying devotion and dedication to the material you're given.
AtLastOnTheGround 2 years ago
i dont understand they gave you thumbs down because what you said is so true
vika9019 2 years ago
I need you Stella Adler in Brazil, please.... she's beautiful
cardoandrade 2 years ago
Stella was right. Personally speaking, I don't wish the actors life on anyone. It is rough and it is tough and it is anything but glamour. If you will be happy being poor all of your life and being able to act in anything that comes up...pay or no pay...and its the ONLY thing you can do in life...try it...otherwise you will suffer.
How will you know if it's really for you?
"A man will get well after he is tired of being sick."
JasperLeMans 2 years ago
100% agreed.
Broadwaytuna 2 years ago
american academy of dramatic arts- new york is AN AMAZING SCHOOL!!
try it out, look it up. on madison/ 30th
davorite 2 years ago
Hey I'm from Switzerland. Have you been in this school? Were there also students from Europe?
Thanks
ublazzz 2 years ago
yep, Holland, Italy, even australia
davorite 2 years ago
THEY ALL SERVE THE BIGGER IDEA. The entire idea of serving the public so that they can understand the character and the whole point of the story, you serve the bigger theme that is universal. That is what made the guys i mentioned huge, NOT MONEY, NOT GLAMOR, NOT FOR FAME, but serving THE STORY.
i love acting because of this woman.
danielpark2188 2 years ago 23
Me too!
zazapower 2 years ago
to rather serve real stories about greater themes like shakespeare and chekov. Think about it, is it a coincidence that unconventional looking guys like deniro and brando studied with her?
They understood the power of portraying a person truthfully rather than serving yourself. The work like raging bull of a man who disintegrates because of his rage and paranoia from the boxing ring, a man broken in new orleans called stanley, a washed up boxer who rallies against the waterfront.
danielpark2188 2 years ago
That's bullshit...
She has brilliant advice, but I believe a load of actors who studied under Strasberg gave brilliant performances, Al Pacino, James Dean, etc.
I don't know why there has to be so many limits to acting and so many stupid "techniques." They're all positive and negative in their own way, and it gets freaking annoying after she critizes him the 300th time and says he "destroyed" acting.
Knoxvicious 2 years ago
I know more has beens who 'studied' with Strasberg and he destroyed them! Strasberg was and always will be a phony! Stransberg was a master manipulator from the early days of the group theatre and a whole vunerable generation bought into it! Marilyn Monroe ... poor baby wouldn't go to the bathroom without asking Strasberg or Paula and don't forget they wound up with her estate. Look what they did to their own daughter Susan ... sad case who died a way too early always looking approval.
zazapower 2 years ago
I've read you've worked with Adler...was she the one who put these ridiculous ideas into your head? You, and even her, forget to mention that Stanisvaskly in his OWN words said in one of his books, :"If it doesn't work for you, throw it out." He knew, then, there were different methods at going about acting. You can say anything you want about Strasberg but you can't deny some of the greatest actors who have studied under him like Al Pacino for example.
Knoxvicious 2 years ago
No she didn't. My husband studied with him before finding Stella. I know of two people who had nervous breakdowns taking his course. Their selections process for for the money not the talent.
Stella ... as you know ... was the only one to study WITH Stanisvaskly.
As for Al Pacino ... the young Pacino ... wonderful ... Panic In Needle Park ... wow ... but he become very boring and I'm saying this as a subjective choice ... not to impose on anyone.
Stella ... said many things that I live by.
zazapower 2 years ago
And she's a very brilliant great teacher, but I think too many acting teachers like her focus too much on hating Strasberg's method. As an aspiring actor, this doesn't make me want to study Adler, this makes me drive away from her since she seems consumed in hating him. I've read her book The Art of Acting and she's brilliant but like Stanisvaskly said. If it doesn't work for you, throw it out. I'd like to know more about your husband though and his work with Strasberg.
Knoxvicious 2 years ago
You misunderstood me. Stella didn't focus on hating him. Stella focused on the work, on playwrights, script interp (brilliant and unmatched to this day) and bringing the actor up to play and recognize big ideas.
My guy doesn't talk about him. I didn't like him a little bit he was a braggart expecially when being a predator with young women (yes, me too). No regard for my husband standing right beside me! This is my opinion about S. Stella's books on Ibsen and Stringberg are like bibles.
zazapower 2 years ago
I really don't understand what you're talking about now. Are you saying Strasberg was a predator with YOU?? Wow, should I really trust some random person on Youtube with this? lol
What's your hubby's name?
She did focus on critizing him a lot. It's even said that the day he died she took one moment of silence for him in her class and then went on to say, "It's going to take years to repair what Strasberg did to acting." She just wasn't respectful of him.
Knoxvicious 2 years ago
I heard that story too. But when I was there she didn't spend any time talking about him. It's a well known fact he was touchy feely with young women. I don't care who know this. Then again this was Hollywood and almost every one in power was like that. It was a five minute conversation and I walked away from him with my hubby. My guy doesn't like or trust the internet and it's not my place to give his name out, especially on this site. FaceBook is also a no-no with him. Cheers
zazapower 2 years ago
Well, how can I possibly believe you if you don't give out, at least, a last name? Plus, I would expect if he WORKED with someone like Strasberg or Stella Adler he'd be well known in the arts of theater. Why would he randomly be working with him otherwise? also, If it's a well known fact Strasberg did this, can you give me a link or something? Otherwise, your whole post is BS. If you really loved Stella Adler, you'd defend her instead of leave.
Knoxvicious 2 years ago
Excuse Me? I don't know you and you don't know me and if you think I have to justify myself to anyone for anything, you are sadly mistaken. I didn't say worked in the sense of earning pay, it was pay for acting classes to both and therefore we are able to make these subjective comments. Everybody has opinions, mine is based on fact; of being there and doing ... not reading and judging.
zazapower 2 years ago
Based on fact? Oh yeah, that's why it's so easy for you to back up your info about Strasberg touching girls with...wait a minute...no links?!? No evidence what so ever? Like I said...how is anyone going too possibly believe you? I want to believe you only in a sense that I want to chat with someone who has been in the presence of these great people as I'm an aspiring actress, but I guess I have to finally comes to terms with your BS. Stop lying to me and yourself. Do you even have a husband? XD
Knoxvicious 2 years ago
LOL ... Nice try. You are very amusing. But move on and stop obsessing about other people's lives.
zazapower 2 years ago
XD
Whatever you say...
Knoxvicious 2 years ago
@Knoxvicious - Sandy Meisner said that Stella & Lee were enemies before the Group Theater. Sandy & Stells remained great friends and allies all their lives!
legatofancier 1 year ago
@legatofancier
I guess they were united by their disagreement with Lee Strasberg!
toby099 1 year ago
@toby099 - Among other things. Sandy said in later life that Strasberg was the greatest influence on his life. It must have been painful for him to break with Lee and side with Stella when it came to technique. Later, Sandy resented the fact that Lee tried to take credit for the students that he had trained when they went to the Actors Studio. Sandy & Stella remained artistically & personally closer over many years.
legatofancier 1 year ago
this is specifically aimed at people like greenrate. heres the breakdown.
i thought the same shit about her when i studied at the school, but over time i considered her an artist.
if your going to hate someone hate lee strasberg, his whole notion of having beautiful people use "emotional memory" to stimulate and serve themselves is whats bastardized the theatre and certainly movies.
stella here is pretty much stating that actors are artists, not to sell themselves to hollywood, but
danielpark2188 2 years ago
Amazing. I absolutely love this woman and admire her beyond all possible descrption.
HECKAMANIAC 2 years ago
that's what I call Grade 'A' Ham!
charlie06840 2 years ago
Was that Grade 'A' Hamlet?
zazapower 2 years ago
Wow -- what a drama queen. Re-lax lady, for heavens' sake (!)
Can't she see . . . that this kind of histrionic intellectualizing is just more of the same kind of self-conscious posing that the Method was supposed to be an antidote for?
Sheesh . . .
greenrate 2 years ago
f'ing right
DeanBrandoClift 2 years ago
grosisima
fedelt87 2 years ago
i wish i could have seen her or Clurman Strasberg in a play in yiddish, when they started
Luc22a 3 years ago
she is a pure inspiration at its greatest....
you could feel her dedication in that one speach, her passion....
harristoble 3 years ago
ACTOR FOR HIRE
F.E.L.I.X. L.U.G.O.
lugofelix 3 years ago
wow
She is somthing!
BoiLight 3 years ago
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
notbrainwashedlikeu2 3 years ago
...her eye was good for talent-and I respect her dedication in thought for the craft of American acting.RIP Stella...
chngdwrld 3 years ago
I LOVE THIS WOMAN . i'll be studying with one of her only teaching living prodigies and cannot wait.
bohemianparadise 3 years ago
Stella Adler inspired me even though she died before I was born (1993). When I get out of HS I might go to her Academy but im thinking about the School of Arts in Southern Florida also.
Dreamydre15 3 years ago
Audition for The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts School of Film + Television. It's here in NYC, it's an AMAZING school.
chi2boom 3 years ago
I studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory in NYC and I am constantly moved by her power...
mandyjulson 3 years ago
love her. do you have any more videos of her or the awake and dream video
mason5r 3 years ago