I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
UTA HAGENThe 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.
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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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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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 won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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