Mike Faist

I hate reading scripts.

— Mike Faist

Always be persistent!

— Mike Faist

I'm not a movie star.

— Mike Faist

The work is never really done.

— Mike Faist

Life is weird. People are weird.

— Mike Faist

I'm not a Hollywood performer.

— Mike Faist

I always hate watching my films.

— Mike Faist

Everyone wants to be Mercutio.

— Mike Faist

It's a weird thing: I can't tell if I hate acting or if I love it too much.

— Mike Faist

We evolve and we don't - that's the sad reality.

— Mike Faist

I would like to ultimately be of service and of use; that's when I feel at my best.

— Mike Faist

I just don't want to follow the trajectory of what the industry wants me to do.

— Mike Faist

Not everybody gets the ability to pursue work that's joyful all the time.

— Mike Faist

History just continues to repeat itself over and over again.

— Mike Faist

I told my mom I wanted to take dance lessons so I could be like Gene Kelly.

— Mike Faist

Only Russ Tamblyn is Russ Tamblyn. I can't try to emulate or mimic what he does.

— Mike Faist

We play pretend for a living. That's ridiculous in itself. I really feel like we're the lucky ones.

— Mike Faist

Maybe it's more stressful to be on stage because you constantly have to keep revisiting it as opposed to being like, 'Well,…

— Mike Faist

It's not hard to have fun in 'Newsies,' about the uprising of children, a new generation coming in to take over the…

— Mike Faist

People in the Midwest move at a much slower pace and things are not as dire as they are in the city.

— Mike Faist

There's a lot of technical issues with a musical whereas with a play it's just the five people onstage in this moment.

— Mike Faist

I realized that there seems to be a general lack of self-love and empathy in our society.

— Mike Faist

Whenever I work, I just kind of obsess about things. I get tunnel vision; I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

— Mike Faist

I danced as a kid and I like dancing at weddings, that's fun. But I wouldn't say that I speak the language.

— Mike Faist

You always have to come at every role as if your character is doing something - why they're doing it. They're always…

— Mike Faist

I saw a screening of 'West Side Story' for the first time, and for me, artistically, the making of that movie was…

— Mike Faist

As actors, our bodies are our instruments - it is what we have - and so we have to be able to…

— Mike Faist

There is this cesspool of talent that comes out of Ohio and they immediately come to New York, or they go to…

— Mike Faist

People talk, or however about actors watching themselves, but no, no one likes to watch themselves. Come on. It's extremely difficult. You…

— Mike Faist

Yeah, 'Take Shelter' is probably one of the best movies that's been made in the 21st century, and it's certainly one of…

— Mike Faist

My younger brothers are both pilots. They had their pilot's licenses, and I was impressed with how young they were. And I…

— Mike Faist

There is something to be said about the relationship with life and death and the marriage between the two. Coming to terms…

— Mike Faist

Really, my job is to understand and portray a script, and I've found that the more I practice on my own writing,…

— Mike Faist

With any sort of project, there's two avenues you could go down: 'How will this look on the outside and how will…

— Mike Faist

I'm a Tony Award loser, actually.

— Mike Faist

Once a project is over then you're kind of in limbo.

— Mike Faist

Toward the tail end of 'Challengers,' Zendaya got me into photography.

— Mike Faist

It's awful to watch yourself is the truth of the matter.

— Mike Faist

I'm learning not to take myself too seriously.

— Mike Faist

You're always trying to find that thing that sparks something inside of you.

— Mike Faist