It's a weird thing: I can't tell if I hate acting or if I love it too much. — Mike Faist Acting Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I think the way to approach any character is just with a deep sense of empathy for whoever it… — Mike Faist Character Copy Share Image
There's no better feeling in the world than being a part of something that's bigger than yourself. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
There's something very humbling about coming back to Ohio - about going off and working with Steven Spielberg, and then coming back… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I'm coming to the realization that we don't choose projects. They kind of find us in a roundabout way. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
The only dance show that I'd really done in New York was 'Newsies.' For the most part, really, I just pushed around… — Mike Faist Dance Copy Share Image
There's something magical about making films. But theater, where it all started for me, makes you better at the craft of storytelling. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
My friends are super supportive and they're super proud, but at the end of the day, I'm still just Mike to them,… — Mike Faist Day Copy Share Image
Right before the pandemic, 'Past Lives' came across to me as something to read and possibly put myself on tape for. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I do this every now and then, I think this is just kind of naturally who I am, I question where all… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
When someone like Steven Spielberg, the godfather of cinema, comes to you like, 'No, you got this. I trust you, I hired… — Mike Faist Cinema Copy Share Image
After a few nonunion shows, I got booked as the understudy for the lead of 'Newsies.' I was in the original Broadway… — Mike Faist Broadway Copy Share Image
Riff is one of the roles I've always been naturally drawn to, although whether I ever thought I'd get to do that...… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
It actually deeply, deeply pains me whenever I have done something for money or a job. It's much more interesting to make… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Maybe this is so pretentious, but 'West Side Story' was everything I had ever hoped to accomplish as an actor. It's really… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
People, as they get older, start to learn this lesson, but if you determine your worth or your self-value based on what… — Mike Faist Control Copy Share Image
It's this constant falling in and out of love with what you do. We're always trying to find a project or a… — Mike Faist Actor Copy Share Image
There is something about what 'Dear Evan Hansen' does that makes it more accessible for people to understand problems that people might… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
When you're doing eight shows a week, it very much turns into relying on your technique and the job of it. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Watching 'West Side Story' and old MGM films in the basement as a boy was a huge part of why I wanted… — Mike Faist Actor Copy Share Image
Having gone from having no money, wanting to just be a working actor - I don't want to just be a working… — Mike Faist Actor Copy Share Image
It was daunting to realize that people who do not have a diagnosed mental health disorder are a lot closer to people… — Mike Faist Health Copy Share Image
I graduated high school a year early and moved to New York when I was 17 to attend the American Musical and… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
The more you're able to understand where someone else is coming from, the better it is for collaboration. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Along this crazy journey of life, there are hills and valleys. Everyone experiences them. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
You can't just say yes to everything. I have to decide whether or not I've actually something to contribute. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
It takes a very strong and smart person to think to accept what they're doing and learn from their own mistakes and… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
People have come up to me and been like, 'You ever get that you look like John Mulaney?' — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Every stage version of 'West Side Story' I'd seen was some big, imposing kind of guy. And, frankly, it just feels less… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I'm adopted, and I met my birth mom right when I was about to move to New York. I was 17 when… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
The company management team at Two Rivers is one of the best I have ever dealt with. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I was just really wrestling with this idea of, 'Do I love acting or do I hate it?' And the truth is… — Mike Faist Acting Copy Share Image
I felt as if 'Bikeriders' was a gift to Mike the actor to be reinspired by watching all of these amazing people… — Mike Faist Actor Copy Share Image
I realized that there seems to be a general lack of self-love and empathy in our society. — Mike Faist Empathy Copy Share Image
Whenever I work, I just kind of obsess about things. I get tunnel vision; I'm a bit of a perfectionist. — Mike Faist Dreams Copy Share Image
People in the Midwest move at a much slower pace and things are not as dire as they are in the city. — Mike Faist City Copy Share Image
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 Children Copy Share Image
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 Being Copy Share Image
