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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
Uta Hagen
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Uta Hagen
Age: 84 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 12
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Actress
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Uta Thyra Hagen
Uta Berghof
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I'm a bad liar I don't know what to say backstage.
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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.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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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.
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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.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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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.
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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.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I love going to the movies I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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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
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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.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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