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.
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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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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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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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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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