Jefferson Mays

I love hats. I've always loved hats.

— Jefferson Mays

Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.

— Jefferson Mays

I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.

— Jefferson Mays

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

— Jefferson Mays

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea…

— Jefferson Mays

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

— Jefferson Mays

When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie…

— Jefferson Mays

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go…

— Jefferson Mays

I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and…

— Jefferson Mays

You can really get your chops in shape in the resident theatres, and I urge anyone to investigate them and to be…

— Jefferson Mays

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…

— Jefferson Mays

There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself -…

— Jefferson Mays

I always dress up for recordings.

— 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

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show…

— Jefferson Mays