Uta Hagen Quotes
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.
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
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.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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.
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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.
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.
