One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
UTA HAGENI think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don’t go.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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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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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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