Michael Shurtleff Quotes - Page 2

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

  Michael Shurtleff

  Dream, Reality, Acting

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Competition, Healthy, Acting

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

  Michael Shurtleff

  Dream, Thinking, Romance

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Michael Shurtleff

  Thinking, Our World, Romance

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

  Character, Fighting, Acting

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