no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
UTA HAGENMaybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don’t go.
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Once in a while, there’s stuff that makes me say, That’s what theatre’s about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn’t happen very often.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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