Uta Hagen Quotes (21 Quotes)

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.

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.

The Country Girl was the only successful play I've done that I was glad when it closed. I had great success in it, but I never liked the last act.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have disassociated myself from that book.

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

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.

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.

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.

Awards don't really mean much.

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

Nobody ever learns how. The search for human behavior is infinite. You'll never understand it all. I think that's wonderful.

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.

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

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

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

Tony Quinn would pick me up and shake me. I'd see his thumbs coming out. I don't think anybody ever should be hurt onstage. It's not art, it's crap