You might need to stop,, to remember...

"It's not easy to get from where we are today back to the place we once were.
The skepticism of everyday life and the loss of artistic ideals creates an environment of irreverence. It seems more difficult for the contemporary student to discipline himself that it did in previous generations.


(...) Their relationship to life is completely deadened. (...)

But there is a basic need in human beings that makes them want to expand themselves. There is a spark that wants to grow.
The spark has to be kept alive.

With a clear and hardworking effort, you can grow, you can graduate from callousness and emptiness into esthetic maturity."


Stella Adler on the Art of Acting applicable to all the forms.