Character Quotes by Michael Shurtleff

Michael Shurtleff

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

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Fighting

Needs

Michael Shurtleff

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

Acting

Character

Giving Up

Michael Shurtleff

There’s only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

Acting

Character

Fighting

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 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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Character Quotes by Michael Shurtleff

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

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

There’s only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

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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Kurt Hahn

Milton Friedman

Estelle Parsons

Henry David Thoreau

Kari Matchett

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