One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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