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.
UTA HAGENTo rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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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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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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