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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I want to live. Doesn't everyone feel the same way?

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Manipulating [is] just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Is nothing more than that. Everyone is manipulating.

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.