#Quote
More Quotes by Uta Hagen
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
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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.
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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.
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.
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
