My family’s business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age. Bryan Batt Read Quote
I can’t tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was ‘Starlight Express’ and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it. Bryan Batt Read Quote
When people ask, ‘What role are you dying to play?’ I always say, ‘The one being written for me right now.’ Bryan Batt Read Quote
I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee. Bryan Batt Read Quote
I’ve lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans – it’s so unique and so European. There’s nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life. Bryan Batt Read Quote
You don’t look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it’s irrelevant in any situation – I don’t care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage. Bryan Batt Read Quote
When I did ‘Ugly Betty’ it was very similar to working on ‘Mad Men’ – great group of people in their own little world. But I don’t really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that’s constantly changing and evolving. Bryan Batt Read Quote
I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared. Bryan Batt Read Quote
Labels don’t really impress, it’s the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. Bryan Batt Read Quote