Awards don’t really mean much.
UTA HAGENThoughts 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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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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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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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