A cardio-funk class – I should have at least taken one of those. But it’s always terrified me. I’m never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.
I’ve been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter. I’ve always enjoyed the process and always enjoyed working more really than the end result of what it achieves. I’m more interested in doing the work.
I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they’re too critical, it affects them. They don’t want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.
The discipline of live theater – doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week – never ceases to amaze me.
I feel like with actors wanting to direct, you really only have a shot or two. You can’t just make a bunch of little independent movies, and then finally one gets noticed. You have to make a really good one right away.
I’m lucky that people believe me when I’m in character.
I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.
You have to be careful when you’re doing an interview.
It’s like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you’re at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn’t free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.
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.