Awards don’t really mean much.
UTA HAGENOnce 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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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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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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 won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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