I’m having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure.
Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it’s also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
If I’m doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I’ll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it’s important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.
Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I’m happy that there’ll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.
I’ve been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I’m working on my double back flip right now.
So I’ve done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I’ve been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.
If you don’t have any ties to the music industry, you just love ‘American Idol,’ you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.
In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.
I thought the idea of ‘Smurfs’ lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the ‘Smurfs’ and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.
I don’t know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you’re losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.
I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.
Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.
Tobey’s a mellow, cool guy. He’s just a good guy. I know that’s not the answer you want, and I don’t mean that as the political thing to say, but he’s a nice guy.
We’re in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn’t want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
I love the ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ show. I love it. I think it’s some of the best hours on TV.
This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon.
I think when dance is mediocre, it’s painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.
I’m a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I’m proud of how the nation is steering toward that.
I’m a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, ’cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.