Acting Quote by Michael Shurtleff Download Open image “The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.” — Michael Shurtleff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Auditions Best acting Character First step First steps Firsts Giving Giving up Steps Use
Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does. — Melissa De Sousa Copy Share Image
Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical… — Julie Halston Copy Share Image
When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you… — Daniela Ruah Copy Share Image
Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt. — Jake Abel Copy Share Image
The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. — Jake Abel Copy Share Image
The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You… — Jazmyn Simon Copy Share Image
When you're auditioning, hold on loosely. Work hard on it at home, like you always do. But when you're in the room, let a… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?' — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
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