The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
UTA HAGENThe 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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself.
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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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