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.
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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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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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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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.
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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.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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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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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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