Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
UTA HAGENWorking with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don’t go.
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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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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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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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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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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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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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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