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

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" Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not. "

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

" You have to have a life. And life has to go on when your voice shuts down on you and you have to take a break from what you're doing for a career. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When you're on set with Ed Asner or Melissa Peterman, you start to sort of exist in a different realm sometimes. You try not to let that get in your head, and you try not to let that overtake you. "

" There's never been a question of not being a part of this business or not being a part of this industry - I love it - it's in my blood; it's always been in my blood. It's just a part of who I am. "

" 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 don't write happy songs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis. "

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