If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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.
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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’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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 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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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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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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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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