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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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 have disassociated myself from that book.
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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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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.
Uta Hagen
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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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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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest that's why I love it most.
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
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.
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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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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
Uta Hagen
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
Uta Hagen
Awards don't really mean much.
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
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
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
Uta Hagen
I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
Uta Hagen
I'm a bad liar I don't know what to say backstage.
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.
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