“How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else's words as if they are your own is less… — M.L. Rio Acting Copy Share Image
“You know, you scare the hell out of me [...] I don't know, it's like, I look at you and suddenly the… — M.L. Rio If-we-were-villains Copy Share Image
“When it was his turn to speak I watched him closely, uncertain whether he was acting only, or if he and I… — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
“We’re only ever playing fifty percent of a character. The rest is us, and we’re afraid to show people who we really… — M.L. Rio Acting Copy Share Image
“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see… — M.L. Rio Drama Copy Share Image
“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is… — M.L. Rio Betrayal Copy Share Image
“It hurts too much to talk about. My teeth ache in my head. I open my mouth to speak, but what comes… — M.L. Rio Grief Copy Share Image
“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.” — M.L. Rio Language Copy Share Image
“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of… — M.L. Rio Language Copy Share Image
“I am all too aware of my own desperate need to find a message in the madness, and as it takes shape… — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
“You know everyone calls you 'nice'...but that's not the word. You're good. So good you have no idea how good you are.” — M.L. Rio If-we-were-villains Copy Share Image
“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and… — M.L. Rio Nature Copy Share Image
“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still… — M.L. Rio End Copy Share Image
“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.” — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
“My martyrdom is not the selfless kind. I can't look at Filippa, shamed by all the injuries I've inflicted- like a man… — M.L. Rio Collateral damage Copy Share Image
