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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.

Uta Hagen

I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
UTA HAGEN

Country Dog Go
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
UTA HAGEN

Art Ever Finish Keep Performance Static Work
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
UTA HAGEN

Country Education Guy Person Poor Sensitive
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.
UTA HAGEN

Act Angry Go Large Level Mediocre Theatre Think
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
UTA HAGEN

Any Demand One Other Satisfaction Way Work
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
UTA HAGEN

Actor Good Love Movie Something Watch
I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
UTA HAGEN

Chekhov Hardest Love Ost Play
This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
UTA HAGEN

Almost Bone Change Concept Everything History Human Realize
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.
UTA HAGEN

Actor Character Dexterity Effortless Instrument Same Since
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.
UTA HAGEN

Chance Elad Extraordinary Mediocre Must Notion Overcome Regular Rob
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
UTA HAGEN

Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession Wrong
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.
UTA HAGEN

Colleague Disciple Freeze Interpretation Must Note Often Stuck Thinker Trend Work
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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Before Born Different Human Being Kind Live Peculiar Reason Some Strange
I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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Backstage Bad Liar Way
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Country Enjoy Maybe Month Most Play
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
UTA HAGEN

Allow Author Hostess Hump Say Screw

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