The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
UTA HAGENThe need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
UTA HAGENOne cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
UTA HAGENThe 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
UTA HAGENIt 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 HAGENMaybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
UTA HAGENThis concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
UTA HAGENAll tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
UTA HAGENWe 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 HAGENAwards don’t really mean much.
UTA HAGENOnce 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.
UTA HAGENI love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
UTA HAGENTo rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
UTA HAGENWorking with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
UTA HAGENUsually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.
UTA HAGENI’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
UTA HAGENWe 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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