Quotes from Jason Ralph

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.

Magic is really difficult to learn, and it requires sort of a fanatical eye for detail.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

You just have to do the things you love, and if you're pursuing the things you love honestly, for the right reasons, then you'll get what you want.

I don't like the idea that you're supposed to woo someone by doing things you wouldn't want to do on an everyday basis.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

I don't have any juggling or fire-eating skills.

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

There's people who can, like, dive into material for hours and hours and hours and work on one tiny little specific thing without getting bored of it. Learning how to do that was, like, very useful.

Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more compartmentalized and is more impulse-driven.

Vancouver is gorgeous; I've never been to any place like it.

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.