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.
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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
-
-
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.
UTA HAGEN -
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
UTA HAGEN -
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 HAGEN -
This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
UTA HAGEN -
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.
UTA HAGEN -
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
UTA HAGEN -
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
UTA HAGEN -
I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
UTA HAGEN -
Awards don’t really mean much.
UTA HAGEN -
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
UTA HAGEN -
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.
UTA HAGEN -
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
UTA HAGEN -
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
UTA HAGEN -
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
UTA HAGEN -
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.
UTA HAGEN