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“Awards are fickle. They taunt you with their existence, they promise acceptance and professional fulfillment, but they end up just moving on to someone else before you know it. In the end, the work is still the work, and the desire to keep getting to perform, to keep doing the thing that you love, will always be there regardless of the fullness of your trophy case.”

“I was and am incredibly proud of my role as Whizzer. I feel it’s the best work I have ever done.”

“I also wondered [what] would be my path as an older gay man…Would I still be watching porn and jerking off in the afternoon? Probably. And that made me happy.”

“Even if they didn’t cast me, I had walked into that room and poured my heart and guts out. There was nothing else I could have done. They would either agree with me that I was [who] they had been searching for, or they wouldn’t.” This is a beautiful way to look at the auditioning process.

“[During my audition] I wasn’t nervous, I wasn’t overwhelmed, I just felt like everything I had worked toward in the past, all my other auditions, had led me to this moment” I cannot wait for the day I go into an audition and have this exact feeling

“When it all (auditioning) comes together, when the hard work pays off and the circumstances line up and you are told you got the job, it’s one of the greatest feelings in the world. To get to do the thing that you love to do and get paid for it is a pretty incredible experience”