Jefferson Mays Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Jefferson Mays:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#fe02f1e0

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#fb9ab063

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#842ec87f

I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
~Jefferson Mays


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#369f1e5d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#16503f18

I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.
~Jefferson Mays


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#80b64487

Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.
~Jefferson Mays


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#b3913d87

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.
~Jefferson Mays


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#c1e1b5ab

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#2a907924

I always dress up for recordings.
~Jefferson Mays


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#7a92e262

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#71248dd7

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#dba3cc7d

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#f810e85e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#593e7040

I love hats. I've always loved hats.
~Jefferson Mays


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jefferson-mays-quotes/#486b9673

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