no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
UTA HAGENFor 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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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It 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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