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More Quotes by Uta Hagen
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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.
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.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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.
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
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.
