Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
UTA HAGENThe need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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 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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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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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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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The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn’t look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.
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