Quotes by Uta Hagen

• I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
• Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
• We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
• I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
• 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.
• I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
• I have disassociated myself from that book.
• Awards don't really mean much.
• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
• Embrace the glorious mess that you are; it's in the chaos where you find your rainbow.