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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Whatever happens to us, God gives grace to endure and overcome the situation.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don't believe a word she says.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Accountability breeds response-ability.