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.
UTA HAGENKeep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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