Steve Kazee

“You have to have a life. And life has to go on when your voice shuts down on you and you have to take a break from what you're doing for a career.”

“When you're on set with Ed Asner or Melissa Peterman, you start to sort of exist in a different realm sometimes. You try not to let that get in your head, and you try not to let that overtake you.”

“I don't write happy songs.”

“What would George Clooney do? That's one of my favourites. He is one of my favourite actors and one of my favourite human beings. I don't know if I have a serious life philosophy.”

“I've got to say I'm a Jon Snow guy for sure.”

“When my friends and I grew up, we had 'Full House,' 'Growing Pains' and 'Roseanne.' These sitcoms were about something, about real people in a sense. They sort of super-sized real life where things aren't necessarily exactly how you go through them in daily life, but you can relate to something, and you can pull something out of it.”

“I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.”

“Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not.”

“No one ever tells you what the grieving process is going to be like. The process of losing a parent or ending a show or vocal injuries - they all bring on their own special breed of dismay... You just have to ride the wave. You don't have any other choice.”

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

“For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.”

“Nobody's ever really dead on 'Game of Thrones.'”

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

“I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.”

“At my high school, it was the first time they had TV monitors up, and before class would start, they would have CMT and the music videos playing.”

“'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.”

“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.”

“As a straight man, I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.”

“For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.”