If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
UTA HAGEN
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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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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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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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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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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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