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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More Uta Hagen Quotes
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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