I read the Bible - every goddamn day.
Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
So much of being an actor is trying to force yourself into these roles and sometimes it's a good fit, and sometimes it's not a good fit. You have to get clear about what it is that you do and not try to be a bunch of other people. Not try to be that guy or try to play that part; find the roles that you do well.
This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of The Book of Mormon. And Girls felt very much the same way - there was an excitement about it as we were doing it; I knew it was something special.
I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.
The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.
My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.
I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.