Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but … - Michael Shurtleff
No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but …
- Michael Shurtleff
Consistency is the death of good acting. - Michael Shurtleff
Consistency is the death of good acting.
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. - Michael Shurtleff
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could… - Michael Shurtleff
Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could…
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself. - Michael Shurtleff
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.
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 one of us. Only dr… - Michael Shurtleff
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 one of us. Only dr…
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted. - Michael Shurtleff
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.
The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true. - Michael Shurtleff
The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.
Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential. - Michael Shurtleff
Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.
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