All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
UTA HAGEN
I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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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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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 going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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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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