To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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