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Michael Shurtleff Quotes
![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 Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/764/763374/763374.webp "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 Picture Quote #1")
![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 Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/764/763373/763373.webp "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 Picture Quote #1")
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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. (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
An expression of feeling isn’t worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants. (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes. (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: ‘Where is the love?’ (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Consistency is the death of good acting (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you’re bonkers (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new? (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
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 (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it’s a grave mistake (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
That’s why there’s so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
An expression of feeling isn’t worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants (Michael Shurtleff Quotes)
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 Quotes)