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Michael Shurtleff quotes: To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.

Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Conflict is drama.

Conflict is drama.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.

The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Consistency is the death of good acting.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.

Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

Michael Shurtleff quotes: The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.