The World Motivation
When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.
“When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.”
When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.
That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.
Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.
One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.
There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.
When people are watching standup and I come out and I'm a prairie woman doing a monologue about the Oregon Trail, it doesn't go off as well.
With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical.
I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a television series.
Your whole life doesn't have to be one long, smart monologue.
I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.