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 HAGENWe must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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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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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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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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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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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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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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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