I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem like you're as frenetic as possible, while replicating your movement so you're giving the editor more opportunity to cut within the different takes. If you're so crazy that you're sitting in one take and standing in another, the editor can only choose one take or the other. But if you can wrangle yourself into the same spot over and over, then you give them more choices for you.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

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 get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

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.

Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.