Stella Adler,『THE ART OF ACTING』감명 깊은 구절

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We have accepted what's around us as just there. We accept it. We don't understand that what's around us has gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years, changing so slowly we don't see it happen. Therefore we lose the sense of ourselves and where we come from. We lose a sense of the continuity of history ― and the sense that history continues in everyday life. You are living or re-living history every moment of your life.
You see a man going out to buy a paper. How many years have men gone to buy the paper? A couple of hundred years? And it's happening all over the world. Buying a paper is not just something you see. It's something that existed before you saw it. And it has a history. An awareness of history will help you stop taking life and its activities for granted.
You see a man walking with his dog. He may be a young man or a man of 60 or 70. That has been going on for hundreds of years. He's talking to his dog in a special kind of voice. That too has been going on for hundreds of years. You see a man holding hands with a girl. How long has that been going on? Adam and Eve. It is 'not' ordinary. Though you may be tempted to think it's ordinary, it's up to the actor to see how it's different.
You see a woman carrying food. What you don't see is that people have had to carry from the beginning of time. What is historic is that today the woman carries food in a plastic bag from the supermarket. She doesn't have to carry vegetables from the field in a sack she wove herself.
You must recognize the significance of living every moment. You don't have to amplify it ― just recognize it. Recognize history. Recognize you're a continuation of history.
It would be wonderful if you lived your life that way, but we all know that's not the case. That's why you need these exercises.
― Stella Adler,『THE ART OF ACTING』