Hagen's instructions and examples guide the user through practical problems such as: "How do I talk to the audience?"
[1] In a follow-up book, Challenge for the Actor (1991), she renamed "substitution" as "transference".
"Respect for Acting is a simple, lucid and sympathetic statement of actors' problems in the theatre and basic tenets for their training wrought from the personal experience of a fine actress and teacher of acting."
—Harold Clurman, Theatre critic [2] "Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting is not only pitched on a high artistic level but it is full of homely, practical information by a superb craftswoman.
An illuminating discussion of the standards and techniques of enlightened stage acting."