Hagen Quotes

#1. Hagen turned his back to her. Who could blame him? Why he hadn't dropped her yet she didn't know. Masochism maybe? Heroism? Maybe he wanted to save her. Maybe he was too embarrassed to admit he couldn't. And

Tiffany Reisz

#2. Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#3. He told me to tell you
you could have everything you want and do everything you want as long as you take good care of the kids." Hagen smiled. "He said to tell you that you're his Don. That's just a joke.

Jon Hagen

#4. Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.

Fritz Weaver

#5. Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close ... that, supposedly, I won't suspect.
Hagen: Somebody like me.
Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.
Hagen: I'm German-American.
Michael: To them that's Irish.

Mario Puzo

#6. Hagen Koch: 'There was no other transport. People on bikes could evade checkpoints, they could have secret meetings

Anna Funder

#7. You have to see my show to believe that I'm the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.

Nina Hagen

#8. Hagen said that no-one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed to win the 1970 Open at St. Andrews. I tell them that some times it doesn't cross my mind for a full five minutes.

Doug Sanders

#9. I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

June Squibb

#10. All three of them stood for a moment gazing at the stars.
'And all these are worlds,' said Hagen.
'Or else,' said Clements with a yawn, 'a frightful mess. I suspect it is really a fluorescent corpse, and we are inside it.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.

Mario Puzo

#12. I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

Shirley Temple

#13. Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.

Steve Hagen

#14. We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

Nina Hagen

#15. True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

Steve Hagen

#16. Lady Gaga is a pop prostitute, a satanic b
with her fascist and demonic secret signs! Her pop prostitution has more to do with bikini advertising than with warmth,

Nina Hagen

#17. 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

#18. If you point out the moon to a cat, she probably won't look at the sky; she'll come up and sniff your finger.

Steve Hagen

#19. Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.

Steve Hagen

#20. The issues of what a self is, how long it will last, what will happen when our bodies decay and consciousness flickers off, are all based not on what we actually see but on what we imagine.

Steve Hagen

#21. To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.

Steve Hagen

#22. Nothing holds us back but our thoughts.

Steve Hagen

#23. I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.

Nina Hagen

#24. 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.

Uta Hagen

#25. [L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts.

Steve Hagen

#26. The buddha-dharma ... is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes ... , not according to some ... program of dos and don'ts.

Steve Hagen

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

Uta Hagen

#28. A buddha recognizes that anything put into speech is never completely reliable.

Steve Hagen

#29. Look dude, no humping the redhead until we see if the rabbit dies.

Lynn Hagen

#30. When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

Nina Hagen

#31. [W]hat purpose does it serve to deny actual experience in order to run with an idea instead?

Steve Hagen

#32. The moment that we hold some solidified idea about Reality- rather than relying on direct perception of the world- we inevitably give rise to anxiety and fear.

Steve Hagen

#33. I used to hate waking up every morning. Now I look forward to every day, even though we're stuck in this place. Because it means one more day with you.

Layla Hagen

#34. We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

Steve Hagen

#35. This moment is complete unto itself. There's nothing lacking in this moment

Steve Hagen

#36. We've formed many a theory and belief, but as we look about the human world, it is clear that nobody actually knows what's going on. Yet claims to Truth are being made at every hand, including the claim that there is no Truth.

Steve Hagen

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

Uta Hagen

#38. My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

Walter Hagen

#39. This desire to hold on, to somehow stop change in its tracks, is the greatest source of woe and horror and trouble in our lives.

Steve Hagen

#40. I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

Walter Hagen

#41. All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

Uta Hagen

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

Uta Hagen

#43. What makes human life
which is inseparable from this moment
so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Steve Hagen

#44. [W]e're caught by our concepts ... [C]oncepts are not Reality.

Steve Hagen

#45. I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

Nina Hagen

#46. We can easily see what actions and speech will lead us and others into hatred, confusion, difficulty, and suffering. And we can see what words and actions will not. ... Is our intention to hoodwink, mislead, inflate, or deceive others ... ?

Steve Hagen

#47. Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

Mario Puzo

#48. The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in ... the separation of self and other.

Steve Hagen

#49. Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

Walter Hagen

#50. Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

Walter Hagen

#51. The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

Steve Hagen

#52. Mindfulness of the body is awareness of ... the taste and smell of this moment.

Steve Hagen

#53. Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.

Steve Hagen

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

Uta Hagen

#55. We cannot. . .begin any real inquiry into Truth, with any assumption or belief whatsoever. We must be willing to see things as they are, rather than as we hope, wish, or expect them to be.

Steve Hagen

#56. No one remembers who came in second.

Walter Hagen

#57. [T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

Steve Hagen

#58. 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

#59. [W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.

Steve Hagen

#60. I need you in a way I never thought I could need anything. It's like air. You don't notice how much you need it until you don't have it. I love you, Aimee.

Layla Hagen

#61. We all know the maxim "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." It's because we want the horse to drink that we become frustrated, because it's literally not in our power to accomplish the job we've set out to do for ourselves.

Steve Hagen

#62. To deny a concept is not to embrace its opposite.

Steve Hagen

#63. I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

Walter Hagen

#64. My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.

Nina Hagen

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

Uta Hagen

#66. Our problem is that we don't pay attention to what we actually know. We give our attention to what we think - to what we have ideas or beliefs about - and we discard what we actually see.

Steve Hagen

#67. The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

Steve Hagen

#68. Our ignorance is such that most of us don't realize we're thirsty. Or, if we realize we're thirsty, we look for water in the wrong place. We go into fire looking for cool refreshment. And often we're confused about what our thirst actually is.

Steve Hagen

#69. But you're the best cook ever, and I'm the best eater ever. We're perfect for each other. Tank pouted.

Lynn Hagen

#70. The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.

Carl I. Hagen

#71. You're my best friend. Why should I be happy to see you go?

George Hagen

#72. One day, soon after the Buddha's enlightenment, a man saw the Buddha walking toward him. The man had not heard of the Buddha, but he could see that there was something different about the man who was approaching, so he was moved to ask, Are you a god?

Steve Hagen

#73. I have my own strength.

Nina Hagen

#74. When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn't have to be this way. The fact is, I'm not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.

Steve Hagen

#75. I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'

Nina Hagen

#76. It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

#77. We might think that by tossing a ball we initiate an action, but this is merely an arbitrary point in a beginningless line of action.

Steve Hagen

#78. Do you have so many people that you care about that you can afford to be callous to them?

Bethany Hagen

#79. There can be no moral authority to tell you what to do, for no such authority can lie outside your own will.

Steve Hagen

#80. Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

Steve Hagen

#81. If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.

Steve Hagen

#82. [B]ecause of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever.

Steve Hagen

#83. If it's Truth we're after, we'll find that we cannot start with any assumptions or concepts whatsoever. Instead, we must approach the world with bare, naked attention, seeing it without any mental bias - without concepts, beliefs, preconceptions, presumptions, or expectations. (6)

Steve Hagen

#84. Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

Nina Hagen

#85. You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.

Nina Hagen

#86. My peace carries her smell and sounds like her voice.

Layla Hagen

#87. As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of

Nina Hagen

#88. Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.

Carl I. Hagen

#89. There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

Steve Hagen

#90. When we see Reality, we are completely beyond the world of words and concepts. We experience what words cannot express, what ideas cannot contain, what speech cannot communicate.

Steve Hagen

#91. I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo '70s, young man. I'm a '70s thing. If I'm a thing at all ... and an exciting thing.

Nina Hagen

#92. Reality is not going to change with your perception of it.

Steve Hagen

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

Uta Hagen

#94. It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.

Walter Hagen

#95. We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

Steve Hagen

#96. It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.

Carl I. Hagen

#97. The moment we try to capture and encapsulate Truth, we have paradox, confusion, contention [and] doubt[.]

Steve Hagen

#98. You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter Hagen

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

Uta Hagen

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

Uta Hagen