Awards don’t really mean much.
UTA HAGENI’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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 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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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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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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 were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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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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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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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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