“I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.” ThinkingYearsWellsStoriesActorsDevelopmentYears AgoStructureScriptsBonesGood Sense Author:William Mapother
“As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.” IfsThinkingWantActorsGoalCreationProductsDevelopmentWhat You Want Author:Scott Cohen
“The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.” ActorsDevelopmentAchievementTrainingUltimateResponsibleAimArtisticBeing Responsible Author:Stella Adler
“Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.” HumansUseFeelingsHandsEyeActorsEmotionalDevelopmentIntellectualResearchComplexesDiscussionMotiveHis EyesAccomplishedUsualTopicsEquipmentForbiddenPsychoanalysisResearchersIdentificationSuppressionMicroscopesBiologistCripplesWeighingIntellectual DevelopmentEmotional Development Author:Lloyd deMause
“I don't know whether it's spiritual development or trying to learn the psychologically with being an actor, but I realise the more I get into it that this was something I was always supposed to do. That allowed me to sit easiser in the life I was living. But that doesn't mean to say you just stroll through it. It takes work and the work is not always about acting. It's sometimes about how you deal with the ups and downs of hope, of expectation.” KnowsTryingMeanSometimesSpiritualActorsDealsActingDevelopmentExpectationsRealisingUps & DownsSpiritual Development Author:Gerard Butler
“What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.” WritingStoriesArtistActorsFunVoiceJourneyDevelopmentEvolutionConstantScriptsCollaborationAnimatorPixar Author:John Lasseter
“I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.” KindChildrenStillsFormActorsLevelsExistenceAttentionFantasyDevelopmentCraveArrested Author:Hugh Laurie
“I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!" Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is. And then the third type is a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people.” PeopleThinkingGivingLooksLongCharacterActionFilmThreeActorsDecisionPowerfulHellTypeDevelopmentEgoThirdsBasesPainfulFlyingAssCodeActivistEthicalRatsAction FilmsThespians Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.” IfsThinkingChildrenImportantActorsActingStreetsDevelopmentCowboyRefinedChildlikeDreamy Author:Michael Gambon
“I was working with actors who were very easy to work with, but I can just imagine how, with all the other decision-making problems that come up along the way, in addition to that, the whole point of what your doing is following performance and character development. You're building your story with those building blocks, and it is not easy. I've only come out with more respect for directors, from this.” WayI CanWholeCharacterStoriesProblemActorsEasyDecisionImagineBuildingDevelopmentDirectorsPerformancesCome UpFollowingBlockDecision MakingCharacter DevelopmentBuilding Blocks Author:Rick Heinrichs
“That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.” WritingCharacterActorsMaterialsDevelopmentReally GreatCharacter DevelopmentGreat WritingGreat Character Author:Matt Lauria
“Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.” DifferentTogetherGuyActorsLinesRaceTvsDevelopmentProjectsSeriesWork OutCyclesFinish LineTv Series Author:Russell Peters
“I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've got many ideas that are still to be drawn out, but the couple collaborations in development are with other actor/writers for graphic novel/comic that could potentially become a film project.” StillsIdeasFilmActorsNovelDevelopmentCoupleProjectsDrawingComicCollaborationPencilsGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Jade Hassoune
“I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.” ThinkingLongPlayActorsGrowthRolesDevelopmentLong TimeFortunateGet BetterTiming Author:Morris Chestnut
“All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers.” ActorsCareersPathDevelopmentUniqueTraining Author:Cynthia Addai-Robinson
“When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsSelfHandsTogetherFacesActorsSoundGrowthViewsActingAirSkyStudentsColorWindMaterialsDevelopmentTheaterRecognitionArtisticBehaveHand In Hand Author:Viola Spolin