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" At my high school, it was the first time they had TV monitors up, and before class would start, they would have CMT and the music videos playing. "

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" There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s blaring out the songs of Neil Diamond, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin. "

" I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.' "

" It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.' "

" Nobody's ever really dead on 'Game of Thrones.' "

" When my friends and I grew up, we had 'Full House,' 'Growing Pains' and 'Roseanne.' These sitcoms were about something, about real people in a sense. They sort of super-sized real life where things aren't necessarily exactly how you go through them in daily life, but you can relate to something, and you can pull something out of it. "

" I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised. "

" I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them. "

" We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel. "

" It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.' "

" When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. "

" If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile. "

" As a straight man, I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance. "

" When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them. "

" My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are. "

" I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live. "

" Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance. "

" The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor. "

" What would George Clooney do? That's one of my favourites. He is one of my favourite actors and one of my favourite human beings. I don't know if I have a serious life philosophy. "

" I was a disruptive student. I hated my teachers, especially my Spanish teacher. When I went to see the musical 'Matilda,' the horrible Miss Trunchbull brought back all sorts of horrible memories. I'd go into Spanish class, put on headphones, and sing at the top of my lungs until they threw me out. "

" I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics. "

" For me, Facebook and Twitter was always just a way for me to reach out to the fans of the show, to communicate with my friends who where in the business, and I never felt like I wanted to use it to further my career in some way. I don't know that it has the power or the ability to do that. I just never thought about it in those terms. "

" For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor. "

" All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer. "

" I don't write happy songs. "

" I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.' "

" I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music. "

" I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night. "

" No one ever tells you what the grieving process is going to be like. The process of losing a parent or ending a show or vocal injuries - they all bring on their own special breed of dismay... You just have to ride the wave. You don't have any other choice. "

" I've got to say I'm a Jon Snow guy for sure. "