Top 43 Uta Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.
Uta Pippig
#3. 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
#4. Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#5. Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann
#6. We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
Uta Hagen
#8. No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
Uta Hagen
#9. Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.
Uta Barth
#10. All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
Uta Hagen
#11. The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
Uta Hagen
#12. Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
Uta Hagen
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
Uta Hagen
#16. I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
Uta Hagen
#17. My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
Uta Barth
#18. I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Uta Hagen
#19. If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen
#20. 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
#21. Once in awhile, 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.
Uta Hagen
#22. They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
Uta Hagen
#23. 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.
Uta Hagen
#24. I can neither live with you. Nor without you.
Sui Ishida
#25. I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.
Uta Barth
#26. 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
#27. I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Uta Hagen
#28. 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
#29. Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
Uta Hagen
#30. One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
Uta Hagen
#31. Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
Uta Hagen
#32. 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.
Uta Hagen
#33. I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen
#34. I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
Uta Hagen
#35. 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
#36. Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
Uta Hagen
#37. Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
Uta Barth
#38. Awards don't really mean much.
Uta Hagen
#39. Said Gilgamesh to him, to Uta-napishti the Distant:
'O Uta-napishti, what should I do and where should I go?
A thief has taken hold of my flesh!
For there in my bed-chamber Death does abide,
and wherever I turn, there too will be Death.
Anonymous
#40. I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.
Uta Barth
#41. Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta)
Kouhei Kadono
#42. We need to have a mask that we never take off.
Sui Ishida
#43. Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann
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