Uta Hagen Quotes

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

I have disassociated myself from that book.

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.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

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.

No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Awards don't really mean much.

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.

Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.