If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
UTA HAGENAwards don’t really mean much.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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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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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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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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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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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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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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