All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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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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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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