We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
UTA HAGENMaybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, to make one’s self heard and seen.
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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 actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn’t look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Usually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.
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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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