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
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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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 playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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