This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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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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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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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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 won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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