Awards don’t really mean much.
UTA HAGENI won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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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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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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