I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.

The older I get, the more I appreciate what came before.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

I really love being a character actor.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.

Your beauty is tragic.It is the sweetest sin, Heaven ever created!

When making a deal with the Devil – Haggle.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.