One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
UTA HAGENAwards don’t really mean much.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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 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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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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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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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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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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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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