We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what…

Michael Shurtleff
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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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Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.
Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential. ✨ Michael Shurtleff (2009). Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it. ✨ Michael Shurtleff (2009). Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part, p. … ▶
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.
Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive. ✨ Michael Shurtleff (2009). Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part, p.35, Bloomsbury … ▶

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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