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 HAGENAll tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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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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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 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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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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 love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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