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.
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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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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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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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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