15 Quotes by Jefferson Mays

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'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.

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.

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

I always dress up for recordings.

I love hats. I've always loved hats.