no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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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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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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Talent 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.
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Since 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.
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