One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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