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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
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
Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.
— Michael Shurtleff
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.
— Michael Shurtleff
Conflict is drama.
— Michael Shurtleff
The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.
— Michael Shurtleff
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
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
That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.
— Michael Shurtleff
The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.
— Michael Shurtleff
Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.
— Michael Shurtleff
The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.
— Michael Shurtleff
An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.
— Michael Shurtleff
There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.
— Freddie Highmore
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.
— Michael Shurtleff
If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
— Zayn Malik
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
— Michael Shurtleff
Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'
— Michael Shurtleff
What remains is solitude.
— Marlene Dietrich
That son of a bitch. Looked like my expiration date was sooner than I'd thought. The bastard had fucked me up the ass at my own game.
— Nenia Campbell
There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.
— Michael Shurtleff
Consistency is the death of good acting.
— Michael Shurtleff
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
Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.
— Michael Shurtleff