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More Quotes by Uta Hagen
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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.
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.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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.
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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.
