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 HAGENIf you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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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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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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