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Jefferson Mays

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.

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Jefferson Mays

Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.

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Jefferson Mays

I love hats. I’ve always loved hats.

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Jefferson Mays

I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.

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Jefferson Mays

A musical sweeps you along, like you’re on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.

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Jefferson Mays

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.

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Jefferson Mays

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.

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Jefferson Mays

I don’t know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It’s a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.

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Jefferson Mays

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.

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Jefferson Mays

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.

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Jefferson Mays

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

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I always dress up for recordings.

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