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.
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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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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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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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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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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 won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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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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