To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
UTA HAGEN
Awards don’t really mean much.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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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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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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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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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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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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