Respect for Acting Quotes

“Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.”
― Uta Hagen, Respect for Acting

“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. Talent alone is not enough. Character and ethics, a point of view about the world in which you live and an education, can and must be acquired and developed.”
― Uta Hagen, Respect for Acting

“Every detail of place, objects, relationships to others, my main character needs, my immediate needs and obstacles must be made particular. Nothing should be allowed to remain general.”
― Uta Hagen, Respect for Acting

“I will probably repeat this a hundred times because it is so often misunderstood, but your substitutions are complete only when they have become synonyms with this actor, this play’s events, these objects you are using in your stage life and produce a significant action.”
― Uta Hagen, Respect for Acting