The World Motivation
If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.
“If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.”
— Molly Shannon · Hired
If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.
I lead a very normal life. I'm just so happy being a mother that everything else revolves around that. If a movie falls through or a TV show doesn't get picked up, I'm pretty easygoing about it because I'm just like, 'Yay, I get to be with my kids more!'
I think I'm a really hard worker, and I feel like my attitude is to just enjoy the process of being creative and developing and 'just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.'
When I was 12, my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York City! My dad encouraged us - he was a wild guy, big on jokes.
We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.
A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963. I was 19 years old.
I was hired to make United better, and that's what we'll do.
I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
Everyone has to understand what the role is - what the role of the player is, the role of the coach is. You're hired to do something. You're paid to do something.