Take nothing for granted. ...

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?
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

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
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 Dave East
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.
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Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.
 Michael Shurtleff
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 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
Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.
 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.
 Michael Shurtleff