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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 love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest that's why I love it most.
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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
Uta Hagen
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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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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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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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Awards don't really mean much.
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I'm a bad liar I don't know what to say backstage.
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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.
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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.
Uta Hagen
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.
Uta Hagen
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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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.
Uta Hagen
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
Uta Hagen
I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
Uta Hagen
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
