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Actors Quotes by Michael Shurtleff
- Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.
- The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.
- The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.
- Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'
- Competition 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…
- Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
- Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
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