"The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers."

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Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Michael Shurtleff

#Actors Quotes #Easier Quotes

“Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.”
“I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.”
“You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr
“We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. And then part of it we shot all the reaping stuff, which was just crazy - because the reaping in the book and in the script is such an emotional thing for everyone. It really did feel like that when we were shooting it.”

Source : "Q&A: Liam Hemsworth on The Hunger Games and Losing Weight for His Role". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. November 8, 2011.
“If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.”

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.26, Augsburg Books
“This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.”
“When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.”
“I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.”

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