To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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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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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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