I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
UTA HAGENWe were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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 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 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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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