All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
UTA HAGEN
We 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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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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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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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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.
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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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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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