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— Michael Shurtleff"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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An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
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