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I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.'

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.