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.
UTA HAGENMaybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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
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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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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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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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