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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.

Uta Hagen

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.
UTA HAGEN

Action Character Feed Feeling Instigate Reveal Selected Suspend Unless Vacumn
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession Wrong
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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Actor Good Love Movie Something Watch
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Art Ever Finish Keep Performance Static Work
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Against Artist Natural Quo Rebel Revolt Status
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Inspire Moment One Worth
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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Event Happen Human Make Man One Stage Theatre Very While
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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Act Angry Go Large Level Mediocre Theatre Think
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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Colleague Disciple Freeze Interpretation Must Note Often Stuck Thinker Trend Work
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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Any Demand One Other Satisfaction Way Work
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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Almost Bone Change Concept Everything History Human Realize
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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Always Heard Last Little Love Married Person Relationship Together Year
Awards don’t really mean much.
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Award Mean Much Really
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Allow Author Hostess Hump Say Screw
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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Day Every Higher Knowledge Learn Make More Other Rach Something
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Country Enjoy Maybe Month Most Play

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