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 HAGENFor 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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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