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
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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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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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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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