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More Quotes by Uta Hagen
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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
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.
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.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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.
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
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
