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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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 won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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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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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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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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