"To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted."

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Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Michael Shurtleff

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“Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.”

Source : Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion
“Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”
“Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.”
“I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.”
“When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.
“I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.”

Source : "The lie of the land" by Richard Mabey, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2007.
“You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.”
“True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up, and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.”

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