Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
UTA HAGENMarlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
UTA HAGENThe 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
UTA HAGENIt must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
UTA HAGENMaybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
UTA HAGENThoughts 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.
UTA HAGENIf you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
UTA HAGENWorking with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
UTA HAGENI love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
UTA HAGENWe 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.
UTA HAGENThe need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
UTA HAGENOne cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
UTA HAGENThis concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
UTA HAGENSince 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.
UTA HAGENno work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
UTA HAGENI’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
UTA HAGENTalent 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.
UTA HAGEN