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More Quotes by Uta Hagen
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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
