I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
UTA HAGENI love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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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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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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