Author Profile
Aaron Lazar
American • Actor
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Showing 31 quotesI know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.— Aaron Lazar
The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.— Aaron Lazar
I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.— Aaron Lazar
Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.— Aaron Lazar
I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.— Aaron Lazar
I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.— Aaron Lazar
Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.— Aaron Lazar
2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.— Aaron Lazar
On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.— Aaron Lazar
You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'— Aaron Lazar
You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.— Aaron Lazar
I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'— Aaron Lazar
Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.— Aaron Lazar
For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.— Aaron Lazar