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.
UTA HAGENThis concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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 love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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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 love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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