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More Quotes by Uta Hagen
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
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.
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
