I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
UTA HAGENOnce 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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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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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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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 won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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.
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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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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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