black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Uta Hagen

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
UTA HAGEN

Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession Wrong
I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
UTA HAGEN

Backstage Bad Liar Way
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.
UTA HAGEN

Action Character Feed Feeling Instigate Reveal Selected Suspend Unless Vacumn
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
UTA HAGEN

Against Artist Natural Quo Rebel Revolt Status
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
UTA HAGEN

Country Fun Like Match Tennis Together Unbelievable Work
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 HAGEN

Almost Bone Change Concept Everything History Human Realize
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
UTA HAGEN

Country Education Guy Person Poor Sensitive
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.
UTA HAGEN

Amalgam Equipment High Sensitivity Sensory Talent Vivid Vulnerability
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.
UTA HAGEN

Chance Elad Extraordinary Mediocre Must Notion Overcome Regular Rob
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.
UTA HAGEN

Cornerd Get Out Show Someone Usually Walk
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
UTA HAGEN

Art Ever Finish Keep Performance Static Work
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
UTA HAGEN

Allow Author Hostess Hump Say Screw
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
UTA HAGEN

Abandoned Circumstance Love 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.
UTA HAGEN

Event Happen Human Make Man One Stage Theatre Very While
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.
UTA HAGEN

Always Heard Last Little Love Married Person Relationship Together Year
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
UTA HAGEN

Country Enjoy Maybe Month Most Play

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Uta Hagen Quotes