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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
― Uta Hagen
EachDay
SomethingNew
Higher
Uta Hagen
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
― Uta Hagen
Research
Inspired
Moments
Uta Hagen
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
― Uta Hagen
Art
Static
Performances
Uta Hagen
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.
― Uta Hagen
Life
SelfEsteem
Women
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
― Uta Hagen
Character
Passion
Play
Uta Hagen
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.
― Uta Hagen
Character
Play
Looks
Uta Hagen
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.
― Uta Hagen
Reality
Self
VividImagination
Uta Hagen
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
― Uta Hagen
Artist
Rebel
StatusQuo
Uta Hagen
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.
― Uta Hagen
Women
Moving
Taken
Uta Hagen
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.
― Uta Hagen
Character
Play
Feelings
Uta Hagen
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
― Uta Hagen
Art
Demand
Pay
Uta Hagen
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.
― Uta Hagen
Believe
Peculiar
Way
Uta Hagen
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.
― Uta Hagen
Theatre
Events
Stuff
Uta Hagen
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
― Uta Hagen
Actors
Want
Existence
Uta Hagen
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
― Uta Hagen
Moon
Pace
Uta Hagen
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
― Uta Hagen
Needs
Vulnerable
Abandoned
Uta Hagen
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.
― Uta Hagen
Ideas
Language
Interpretation
Uta Hagen
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
― Uta Hagen
GoodMovie
Actors
Knows
Uta Hagen
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
― Uta Hagen
Host
Screws
Hostesses
Uta Hagen
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
― Uta Hagen
Theatre
Chekhov
Hardest
Uta Hagen
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