Uta Quotes

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

We need to have a mask that we never take off. ~ Sui Ishida

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. ~ Uta Barth

Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church. ~ Uta Ranke-Heinemann

Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible. ~ Uta Ranke-Heinemann

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

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

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

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

I have disassociated myself from that book. ~ Uta Hagen

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

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at it ... The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it. ~ Uta Barth

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

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

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

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

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION ~ Uta Hagen

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

I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at? ~ Uta Barth

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

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

Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts. ~ Uta Ranke-Heinemann

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Uta Hagen

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of. ~ Uta Barth

It all started with the most basic level of Uta Hagen, right at the beginning. I'm like, 'Really? I came to grad school; I'm going to do the 'Respect for Acting'?' And I realized the importance of that, because it was really to just get you to get rid of everything. Get rid of everything you've learned and just start from the bottom up. ~ Kunal Nayyar

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

I can neither live with you. Nor without you. ~ Sui Ishida

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

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

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

Awards don't really mean much. ~ Uta Hagen