Jefferson Mays Professions : Actor Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by 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 through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it. Jefferson Mays space journey time night 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. Jefferson Mays your great go you I always dress up for recordings. Jefferson Mays recordings dress up always The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character. Jefferson Mays performance me beauty character 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. Jefferson Mays childhood mother children world When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together. Jefferson Mays lie dinner together sleep 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. Jefferson Mays show try i-can happens 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 american know long people My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English. Jefferson Mays weird me mother children There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices. Jefferson Mays doing year myself talking A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up. Jefferson Mays ride like you magic I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna. Jefferson Mays offered madonna everyone jobs I love hats. I've always loved hats. Jefferson Mays loved always hats love Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats. Jefferson Mays right some start shoes I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role. Jefferson Mays who being enjoy people Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors
