Michael Shurtleff Quotes

• Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Listening, Acting, Hearing

  "Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part".

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• Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Heart, Creating, Acting

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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 are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

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  Opposites, Competition, Healthy

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• El conflicto es lo que crea el drama. Cuanto más conflicto encuentren los actores, más interesante será la representación.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Drama, Interesting, Acting

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• Consistency is the death of good acting.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Consistency, Acting, Good Acting

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.103, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

  Funny, Humorous, Insane

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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 dreams keep us going...When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future.

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  Dream, Character, Reality

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• El primer paso para una mejor audición es renunciar al personaje y utilizarte a ti mismo.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Giving Up, Character, Acting

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• A menudo los actores me preguntan si creo que deberían seguir intentando ser actores.
  Tengo la misma respuesta para todos los que me preguntan: Si puedes elegir y ser razonablemente feliz haciendo otra cosa, vete de una vez y dedícate a otra cosa.
  Actuar o escribir o dirigir en el teatro o la televisión o la pantalla es sólo para los enfermos irrecuperables, los que están tan hechizados por la necesidad que no tienen elección.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

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• The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Dream, Fighting, Moral

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself— self-love isn’t easy to come by for most of us— but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Pride, Self, Forever

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

  Michael Shurtleff

  Actors, Scene, Should

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Motivation, Opposites, Acting

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Choices, Theatre, Acting

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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 for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Drama, Play, Interesting

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• 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

  Acting, Up To You, Actors

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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 what he needs. Interfering means getting in their way so that what you want is stronger than what they want.

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  Strong, Mean, Order

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• 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 can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.

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  Heart, Matter, Inexplicable

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Attitude, Survivor, Way

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• An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

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  Expression, Feelings, Acting

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• 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 Street Bridge.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Attitude, Long Ago, Bridges

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• Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

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  Emotional, Discovery, Acting

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• The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Character, Fighting, Needs

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

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  Mistake, Unhappy, Normalcy

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Actors, Easier, Bits

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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