"Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before."

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Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Michael Shurtleff

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“There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.”
“TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.”
“Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.”
“Until you value yourself, you can't expect anyone else to do so.”
“Well-meaning, decent people will condemn the behavior of a Ted Bundy, while they're walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things that send young kids down the road to be Ted Bundys.”
“With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.”
“Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.”

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