To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?
You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.
The only thing that matters is the theater!
Mark Conseulos is so amazing.
Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.
To get to go from stage to set and back, it keeps you feeling very present, and I think that's always such a wonderful thing in your work because you don't really have time to be as neurotic as I might become.
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial. . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.
They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes