Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

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"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."

- Stella Adler

Awareness

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

- Stella Adler

Inspiration

"The theatre was created to tell the truth about life and a social situation."

- Stella Adler

Inspiration

"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."

- Stella Adler

Inspiration

"The play is not in the words, it’s in you!"

- Stella Adler

Belief in Self

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"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."

- Beauty and the Beast

Integrity

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracian

Integrity

"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."

- Hachiman Hikigaya

Integrity

"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."

- Gintoki Sakata

Integrity