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.
UTA HAGENWe 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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
-
-
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.
UTA HAGEN -
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.
UTA HAGEN -
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
UTA HAGEN -
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
UTA HAGEN -
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.
UTA HAGEN -
Awards don’t really mean much.
UTA HAGEN -
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.
UTA HAGEN -
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
UTA HAGEN -
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
UTA HAGEN -
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
UTA HAGEN -
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
UTA HAGEN -
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 HAGEN -
I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
UTA HAGEN -
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
UTA HAGEN -
This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
UTA HAGEN