Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you …

Michael Shurtleff
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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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That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak. ✨ Michael Shurtleff (2009). Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part, p.35, Bloomsbury Publi … ▶
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 re … ▶
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 (2009). Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Pa … ▶
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.

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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