Uta Hagen Quotes

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

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

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• Overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Feeling

• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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  Tags in Profession, Actor

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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  Tags in Movie

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

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  Tags in Myself, Associated

• Awards don’t really mean much.

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Uta Hagen (17)

Birth:	12th June, 1919
Death:	14th January, 2004
Nationality:	American, German
Profession:	Actress

About

Uta Thyra Hagen was a German-born American actress and drama teacher. She originated the role of Martha in the 1963 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. Hagen was on the Hollywood blacklist, in part because of her association with Paul Robeson, and this curtailed film opportunities, focusing her to perform in New York theaters.

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