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Michael Shurtleff Quotes - Page 2

If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

Michael Shurtleff
Dream, Reality, Acting
Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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 along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

Michael Shurtleff
Competition, Healthy, Acting

Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.

Michael Shurtleff
Dream, Thinking, Romance
Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

Michael Shurtleff
Thinking, Our World, Romance
Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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
Character, Fighting, Acting

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