Part One: for serious beginners, Part Two: acting techniques for the career professional. Part Three: the unique performance requirements when Acting for the Camera. If you have asked yourself any of the following questions, you will find the answers in Sculpting Thought: What does it it take to achieve Oscar-worthy performances? Why is it that some actors make it to the Silver Screen and some do not? Why do some careers survive generations, while some, at the pinnacle, stop short? Is your genius crushed by stage fright? Do you look upon auditions as the enemy? Do you give your best performance on the way home in your car? Do you struggle to memorize lines or cry on cue? Why do some (but not all) arcane "methods” lead only to bewilderment, confusion and endless “day jobs"? This book points the way for you, to reach reliable success. Acting is an art that encompasses many disciplines. In Sculpting Thought you will find chapters on performance skills that lie beyond character interpretation. They include, improv, masque work, mime, clown, and a comprehensive, yet simple, system of necessary Script Analysis. Lawrence Benedict, winner of awards for Best Actor, Best Writer, Best Editor, and more, is a graduate of the renowned National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, a veteran of The Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada, and a Hollywood lifer. Lawrence shows you how you can do it too! Sculpting Thought introduces Lawrence's UNIQUE SYSTEM FOR MEMORIZATION (LEARNING LINES) that will eliminate the drudgery of rote memorization and repetitive delivery, as well as provide many other natural approaches to evolving your character. Lawrence is a Canadian starred as Detective Dave Quinn in "The Collaborators,” a police series shot in Toronto and exhibited world-wide. He has appeared on almost every Hollywood Television show and owned his own successful production company in Hollywood, Angus Lake Productions. Sculpting Thought explains how to avoid "the short way down" after "the long way up!” Yes, that is Lawrence Benedict as a sabre-wielding Musketeer on the cover!