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 HAGEN
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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 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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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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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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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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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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