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.
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.
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