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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.

Uta Hagen

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

Cornerd Get Out Show Someone Usually Walk
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

Chance Elad Extraordinary Mediocre Must Notion Overcome Regular Rob
I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
UTA HAGEN

Country Dog Go
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.
UTA HAGEN

Action Character Feed Feeling Instigate Reveal Selected Suspend Unless Vacumn
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
UTA HAGEN

Allow Author Hostess Hump Say Screw
I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Chekhov Hardest Love Ost Play
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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Actor Good Love Movie Something Watch
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

Day Every Higher Knowledge Learn Make More Other Rach Something
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Envision Future Keep Moon Pace Present Take Trip
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Inspire Moment One Worth
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession Wrong
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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Before Born Different Human Being Kind Live Peculiar Reason Some Strange
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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Country Fun Like Match Tennis Together Unbelievable Work
I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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Backstage Bad Liar Way
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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Actor Character Dexterity Effortless Instrument Same Since
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
UTA HAGEN

Art Ever Finish Keep Performance Static Work

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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