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.
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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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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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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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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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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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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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