My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the "Kazee" is not.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

When you start hiding things away, that’s when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

If you don’t pursue purpose, you won’t know what to with your time

Three things in life you will never have to chase: True friends, true love and your destiny!

I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are. Will you forever remind yourself, too?

For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.