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

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Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Michael Shurtleff

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“This is America. Weâ€™re entitled to our opinions.â€ â€œWrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.”
“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

Source : "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.
“The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
“How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.”
“I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached.”
“Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.”
“The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.”

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