Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.
UTA HAGENWorking with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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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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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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