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More Quotes by Uta Hagen
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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.
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
