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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.

Uta Hagen

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 HAGEN

Day Every Higher Knowledge Learn Make More Other Rach Something
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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Actor Character Dexterity Effortless Instrument Same Since
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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Before Born Different Human Being Kind Live Peculiar Reason Some Strange
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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Action Character Feed Feeling Instigate Reveal Selected Suspend Unless Vacumn
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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Abandoned Circumstance Love Ned Peak Protect Vulnerable
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Country Enjoy Maybe Month Most Play
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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Cornerd Get Out Show Someone Usually Walk
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Art Ever Finish Keep Performance Static Work
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
UTA HAGEN

Allow Author Hostess Hump Say Screw
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Envision Future Keep Moon Pace Present Take Trip
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
UTA HAGEN

Country Fun Like Match Tennis Together Unbelievable Work
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.
UTA HAGEN

Colleague Disciple Freeze Interpretation Must Note Often Stuck Thinker Trend Work
Awards don’t really mean much.
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Award Mean Much Really
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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Almost Bone Change Concept Everything History Human Realize
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Against Artist Natural Quo Rebel Revolt Status
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession Wrong

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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