"Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it."

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Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Michael Shurtleff

#Motivation Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Acting Quotes

“We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.”
“There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: itâ€™s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.”

Source : Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.138, BookBaby
“I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade it for anything. The artist should be the person representing their brand because theyre the best person to do so.”
“If something scares me, then I have to do it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and this includes suffering and grief -- even that of others), and that sometimes one catches a glimpse of the link between these happenings. I believe -- even when I am myself blind and deaf, or even indifferent -- in the existence of a mystery ...”
“To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist.”

Source : Diane Coyle (2002). “Sex, Drugs, & Economics: An Unconventional Introduction to Economics”, Texere Publishing
“My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”

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