If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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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 love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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