All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
UTA HAGENAll tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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 HAGENI love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
UTA HAGENno work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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 HAGENI love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
UTA HAGENUsually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.
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.
UTA HAGENWe were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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 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 HAGENI’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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 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 HAGENIf you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
UTA HAGENMarlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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