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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.
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.
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
