Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.
Michael ShurtleffTo go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.
Michael ShurtleffActing in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
Michael ShurtleffEveryone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.
Michael Shurtleff