This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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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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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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 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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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