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
More Quotes By Uta Hagen
Once in a while, there’s stuff that makes me say, That’s what theatre’s about. It has to be... The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve... Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns... Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely);... We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be... no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It... All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of... To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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