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More Quotes by Uta Hagen
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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.
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.
