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.
Interpretation
Our thoughts and feelings serve little purpose unless they inspire our actions, which ultimately define who we are.
Uta Hagen emphasizes the importance of actions in defining character, suggesting that mere thoughts and feelings lack value without corresponding actions. In her perspective, it is through the choices we make and the actions we take that our true character is revealed, likening this process to the performances of characters in a play. Therefore, it is not enough to think or feel; we must act meaningfully to express our true selves.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
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
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.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.
Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.
There are so many - namely black and brown bodies - who have experienced a different America than what the mainstream American flag symbolizes.
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