"You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child."

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Source : "BWW Interviews: Bryan Batt Talks Broadway, MAD MEN, and His Cabaret Act BATT ON A HOT TIN ROOF". Interview with Jeff Davis, www.broadwayworld.com. September 2, 2013.

Bryan Batt

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“The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being”
“The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.”
“The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.”
“Over a year before I started recording Salad Days, so I finally sat down and was like I have to do this. And it did feel like a chore. I was looking at it in a completely wrong way, trying to one up myself. Just the typical sophomore album bullshit. The main thing I got out of it is I eventually gave up on all that stuff. I had to re-learn why I liked making music in the first place, why I liked recording in my room all the time. Because it's fun. It's fun for me.”
“You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.”
“Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.”
“Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.”
“When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.”

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