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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

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Uta Hagen
Age: 84 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 12
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Teacher
Television Actor
Uta Thyra Hagen
Uta Berghof
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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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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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.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I'm a bad liar I don't know what to say backstage.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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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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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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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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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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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest that's why I love it most.
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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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