Awards don’t really mean much.
UTA HAGENUsually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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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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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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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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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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