Mark Ruffalo was quoted on "Inside the Actor's Studio" talking about what he learned from Stella Adler.
A student asked him the following question:
"While studying with Stella, what was one thing that touched you the most, that drives you to create an honest performance?"
His answer:
"Stella taught us that the playwrights were trying to convey ideas, big ideas about humanity.
You had a responsibility as an artist to take these things, to use yourself, and to lift these ideas in a dramatic way. She would scream at you 'Never be boring darlings!' That was like a death sentence...to be boring. So what you see, great exciting acting is, or lifting the ideas of the play, there being taken by the ideas of the play and set a fire, and the self goes away, and the ego goes away, and now you're in service."
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