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Scene Quotes by Michael Shurtleff
- 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?'
- Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.
- 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…
- 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…
- Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?
- An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.
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