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Entertainment psychology – Are performers raging narcissists?

Friday, April 18th, 2008

“Actors and actresses, because that’s their career, can be sort of self-obsessed.”
Kristen Bell says that for her new film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” she “just looked into the depths of the most hard-to-admit or vulnerable or bad characteristics of my own personality and what an actress can become if given that kind of self indulgence or [...]

Celebrity and personal growth – Jimmy Smits and others on fame

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

“Celebrity hits like a bomb. So you have to find what makes you stable in the storm.”
Jimmy Smits adds, “Then, no matter what’s happening around you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.” [imdb.com]
In my article The Dark Side of Fame, [...]

Celebrity and personal growth – Vera Farmiga: It’s a profession so much to do with ego

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Actor Vera Farmiga currently stars in “Joshua.” In addition to her perspectives below (from a new Los Angeles Times interview), she has also been quoted: “I really don’t feel a need to be famous. But I do feel a need to make a difference, to shed light on human emotion through acting.”
[LATimes: Anthony Minghella said: [...]

Dealing with fame – Keeping open, keeping your ego in check

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

M. Night Shyamalan cast and directed Bryce Dallas Howard [photo] in a key role in the 2004 film “The Village” and recently commented : ”There’s a purity to her that comes through in her acting. When an emotion comes through, it’s unadulterated. The gunk from fame and money — all those things that would gunk [...]