I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.

UTA HAGEN

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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.

Uta Hagen

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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Envision Keep Take Trip
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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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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Almost Concept Everything
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Against Quo Revolt Status
I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.

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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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 Human Being Peculiar Some
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Ever Keep Performance Static
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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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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Feed Instigate Selected Suspend Unless Vacumn
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Inspire Moment One
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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Abandoned Circumstance Ned Peak Protect Vulnerable
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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Make One Stage Theatre Very While
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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Like Match Tennis Together Unbelievable
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.
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Dexterity Effortless Since
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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Cornerd Get Out Someone Usually
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.
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Colleague Disciple Freeze Interpretation Must Note Often Stuck Thinker Trend
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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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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Go Large Mediocre Theatre Think

I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.

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