Uta Hagen Quotes
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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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Awards don't really mean much.
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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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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. 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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They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
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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 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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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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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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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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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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Once in awhile, 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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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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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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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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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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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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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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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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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.