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- I’ve done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like ‘The Normal Heart.’ We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.
- I think in any form of acting, you’re always well served if you’ve done theater.
- There’s no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you’re doing a single-camera anything, whether it’s a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.
- I love seeing tennis up close.
- I was a very shy child.
- You just have to speak up. You just have to say, ‘I would like to do this,’ and it’s amazing what people who listen can do for you.
- I couldn’t tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
- If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.
- I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don’t want to share that part of myself.
- My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it’s obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn’t always happen when you’re doing theater or movies.
- Theatre was my first love. I can’t take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn’t want to. To me, it’s home.
- It’s a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I’m talking about — but then I’m on to the next script and it’s forgotten.
- I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying ‘Hi’ to me, and I still remember feeling this way — but I don’t know why — but I wouldn’t even say ‘Hi’ back. I was that shy.
- In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York — one’s a Maltese and the other’s a Shih Tzu.
- I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn’t know the answer to fans’ questions half the time — and the patience involved! I couldn’t imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.
- I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you’re stuck.
- Well, I’m a big believer in ‘never say never.’
- To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
- Apparently, all I do is walk my dogs. In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York — one’s a Maltese and the other’s a Shih Tzu.
- When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.