45 Quotes by Uta Hagen

I have disassociated myself from that book.

Awards don't really mean much.

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

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.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

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

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.

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

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