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More Quotes by Uta Hagen
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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.
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.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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.
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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.
