To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
UTA HAGENAll tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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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 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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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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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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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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 going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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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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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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