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
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.
More Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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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
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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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Awards don’t really mean much.
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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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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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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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