A biography for Rory O'Malleyhasn’t been written yet.
“I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.”
“Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'”
“It's profound to watch a little African-American girl light up when she raps as George Washington and she realizes that Washington's story is her story. That this history belongs to all of us.”
“Mom was a single mother. So three aunts and three uncles and all of mom's friends pitched in as weekend warriors.”
“It's about being open to what comes your way. I came to New York and saw 'Spelling Bee.' I said to myself, 'That's the greatest show ever, and I can't believe I'm not a part of it.' I felt the only way I'm going to get to be a part of something that good is to live in New York. So I moved to New York and ended up in 'Spelling Bee.'”
“I love how passionate Elder McKinley is about his faith, but he's a perfectionist in a bad way... to the point he denies his true feelings. It's a common story, unfortunately.”
“We cannot give up on working toward that more perfect union.”
“'Hamilton' is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It's moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it's pretty hard to oversell it.”
“Life comes before the business.”
“I loved 'Les Miz' and 'Into the Woods' - I used to cast 'Into the Woods' with my friends, even if they'd never stepped on stage before.”
“When I came out, I thought coming out meant giving up a marriage and a family. That was, to me, the most difficult part of the coming-out process.”
“I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!”
“As a kid, I had nightmares about Freddy Krueger just from the trailers on TV!”
“Being a kid and growing up in Cleveland, the Tonys were how you saw Broadway shows: you got to hear from each show, and that's what inspired me to live my dream, so the fact that I am getting recognition from them, it's mind-blowing.”
“With Irish drama, things are told with humor.”
“I obsessively listened to all of James Lapine's shows as a child growing up in Cleveland and had every cast recording and every VHS tape of 'Into the Woods' and everything that James had done that I could get my hands on.”
“You put me in the room with my family and everyone I grew up with, and I'd be the last person that you'd say is the performer.”
“I think that, as an actor, you fight so hard to get work for years that when it actually comes, you just are so grateful. I am so happy to get to do what I love.”
“The 'Cheers' family seemed like my family.”
“Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.”