Jefferson Mays Quotes & Sayings

“There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.”

“The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.”

“I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.”

“Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.”

“A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.”

“When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together.”

“I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.”

“I love hats. I've always loved hats.”

“I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.”

“I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.”