I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
UTA HAGENI love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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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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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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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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