With all of my characters, I don't go into it thinking I want to explore this part of myself. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
Even now while I'm acting on Broadway, I find myself saying things like, 'Well I'm not REALLY an actor, I'm more of… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I've always created otherly gendered roles for myself. Females mostly. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I've been making my own work by myself for no one for so long now that the fact that I'm doing something… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I'm a character actress trapped in the body of a teenage boy. I'm never going to get the parts that Andrea Martin… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
It always bothered me when people would think the joke was that I was playing a woman. I never saw myself as… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
There was never this moment, like, after the 2016 election or something, where I sat down and thought to myself, what does… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I have this character called the Goblin Commuter of Hoboken. She works on Wall Street and she's a goblin. She sort of… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I would love to write something that I'm not in and just be in a rehearsal room as a writer. But I love theater. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I grew up in Oregon. I have a younger brother and an older sister. We were very poor. VERY POOR. We lived in a… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I grew up in a trailer until I was 5 or 6, and then my dad chased us out with a gun. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I do have that secret desire to be a cabaret star and just sing Cole Porter medleys. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make the stupidest, funniest thing possible. My version of Mary Todd Lincoln is basically just me. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
The first Broadway show that I ever saw was 'Kiss Me, Kate.' I was in New York, on a school trip. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
There's something so embarrassing about doing characters and talking about it. It's humiliating. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I went to school at Marymount Manhattan College for a year, and then I dropped out. — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I don't understand relationships. I feel like I'm pretending when I'm in one. Like, 'Oh yeah, I love eating with my left hand. This… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image