no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
UTA HAGENKeep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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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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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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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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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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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