To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
UTA HAGENI won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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 knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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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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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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