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 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
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Once 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.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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