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 HAGENI won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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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 won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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