I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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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I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
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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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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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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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