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 HAGENKeep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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