You can really get your chops in shape in the resident theatres, and I urge anyone to investigate them and to be willing to go anywhere to pursue the great roles. Jefferson Mays Read Quote
It’s such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There’s nothing quite like it. Jefferson Mays Read Quote
The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character. Jefferson Mays Read Quote
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. Jefferson Mays Read Quote
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. Jefferson Mays Read Quote
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. Jefferson Mays Read Quote
I don’t know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It’s a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably. Jefferson Mays Read Quote
My mother was a children’s librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children’s literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English. Jefferson Mays Read Quote
