Quotes by Uta Hagen - Page 1

Awards don't really mean much.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Awards
Mean
Really Mean
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen / Actress
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Inspired
Moments
Research
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Liars
Lying
Theatre
Backstage
Liar
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Dog
England
My Dog
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Country
Enjoyed
Months
Month
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Chekhov
Hardest
Theatre
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Moon
Pace
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Guy
Poor
Sensitive
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Artist
Rebel
Status Quo
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Art
Performances
Static
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Actors
Bourgeois
Existence
Profession
Want
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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Brando
Fun
Tennis
Together
Played
Match
Unbelievably
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Actors
Good Movie
Knows
Movie Actors
Love Good Movies
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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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Art
Demand
Pay
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Host
Hostesses
Screws
Allowed
Hostess
Hump
Screw
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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Cornered
Shows
Tickets
Walks
Walk Me Feel
Ticket
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Acting
Angry
Mediocre
Theatre
Thinking
Large
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Abandoned
Needs
Vulnerable
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Life
Women
Chance
Extraordinary
Mediocre
Notion
Self Esteem
Overcome
Must
Leads
Regular
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Stage
Stuff
Theatre
Awhile
Often
Human
Event
Say
Happen
Makes
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Events
Stuff
Theatre
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Jesus
Censorship
Chamberlain
Idiotic
Lord
Allowed
Instead
Ok
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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
Uta Hagen / Actress
Each Day
Higher
Something New
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Anniversary
Smile
Heart
Married
Together
Years
Herbert
Lasted
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Character
Feelings
Play
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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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Ideas
Interpretation
Language
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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 Hagen / Actress
Reality
Self
Vivid Imagination
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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.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Character
Looks
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. 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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Believe
Peculiar
Way
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Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION
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Character
Passion
Play
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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. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.
Uta Hagen / Actress
Women
Moving
Taken
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