Uta Hagen

Respect for Acting

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Respect for Acting “This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end.” --Publishers Weekly “Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her 'object exercises' display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation.” --Library Journal “Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting . . . is a relatively small book. But within it, Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft.” --Los Angeles Times “There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by Uta Hagen.” --Fritz Weaver “This is a textbook for aspiring actors, but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor.” --King Features Syndicate
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Quotes

  • Anna Mészároshas quoted3 years ago
    The Fourth Wall
  • Anna Mészároshas quoted3 years ago
    “A fine actor forgets what’s coming.” He forgets even the next line he has learned until he needs it!
  • Anna Mészároshas quoted3 years ago
    Most of you have the mistaken idea that the emotions rise upward and increase on an even curve until they reach a peak. On the contrary, our anxieties, frustrations, disappointments, angers and joys may be charted like the fever of a patient when his temperature jumps up, drops down, levels off, drops and climbs again. Leave room in your work for this. If a sudden calm settles over you, don’t judge it as wrong for your circumstances—it may precede the storm.

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