Quotes by Bryan Batt

About Bryan Batt:

Bryan Batt is an American actor best known for his role in the AMC series Mad Men as Salvatore Romano, an art director for the Sterling Cooper agency. Primarily a theater actor, he has had a number of starring roles in movies and television as well. His performance in the musical adaptation of Saturday Night Fever earned him one of New York City's more unusual honors, a caricature at Sardi's.
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It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Bryan Batt

God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be.

Bryan Batt

The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it u...

Bryan Batt

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

Bryan Batt

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

Bryan Batt

I live a bi-coastal and sometimes tri-coastal life.

Bryan Batt

I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'

Bryan Batt

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Bryan Batt

My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left.

Bryan Batt

I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.

Bryan Batt

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

Bryan Batt

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

Bryan Batt

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

Bryan Batt

I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.

Bryan Batt

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Bryan Batt

You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

Bryan Batt

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

Bryan Batt

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

Bryan Batt

Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.'

Bryan Batt

Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.

Bryan Batt

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBryan Batt
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornMarch 1, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor