"Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice."

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Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Michael Shurtleff

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“You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.”
“What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?”
“Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.”

Source : Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media
“I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park.”
“I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.”
“Now thyself is more important than â€œKnow thyself.”
“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like As Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.”

Source : "Looking At The 'Sunny' Side Of Life". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. September 17, 2008.
“Betty White met with President Obama at the White House. President Obama invited Betty personally because she's great with animals. And the president's still having a tough time house-training Joe Biden.”

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