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[...]

For many years, Uta Hagen was asked to write a book. Finally she did, and here it is: an account of her own struggle with the techniques of acting and based on her teachings. "Respect for Acting" is a book for people who respect (or wish they could) the theater on both sides of the footlights, for a[...]