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.
- Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
- An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking…
- We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last…
- Consistency is the death of good acting.
- An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get…
- An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.