The show that I do right now I have to play the cello, and I don’t play the cello. I want it to look real so that cellists don’t look at it and call me mean names. My teacher told me that as long as I look confident in my movements and I was strong and stoic and, you know, fully embodied the character that it would be fine. She told me that I just needed to approach everything I do in life with the confidence of the average white man. That changed my life. I feel better
I was nervous even to do this [interview] because I ramble like crazy. So I was like "what am I gonna talk about for all this time? Then I just remembered: How would an average white man do this? And he probably would’ve shown up with mismatched socks.”