One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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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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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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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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