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

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  I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's l

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  When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie

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  I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People h

• Jefferson Mays:

  My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It

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  There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around th

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

• Jefferson Mays:

  I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.

• Jefferson Mays:

  I love hats. I've always loved hats.

• Jefferson Mays:

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