BRAD HALL

My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

New York is just such a perfect place for romance.

When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.

I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the '30s and '40s, they're all in New York. Even 'Sleepless in Seattle,' a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they've never been to New York, knows about it... from the movies.

There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.

In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else. People just waltz into your world and it's believable.

The truth of the matter is that it's not much less work to do a short than it is to do a feature. Particularly when you're running around different countries.

I like the compressed nature of the story telling.

Marjorie Luke was funny and huge, or at least I remember her that way.

'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the Practical theater. I believe in it wholeheartedly and will do it the rest of my life. But there's also legitimate theater, be it comedy, drama, classics or modern plays which I think is important and something I want to be involved in too.

The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it's where I got my first kiss.

Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you're a pal, you're a pal for life with Jules. I'm not just flattering her because she's my wife.

I could have been a mediocre tap dancer.

In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you're always in the car.

You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on 'Veep,' it's not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break out what's going on in the scenes.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.

If you're on Thursday night at 8:30, because the history of that time slot has been so disastrous, there's a hell of a lot of numbers pressure.

The casualness with which people say hello to Julia on the street is hilarious to me.

Audiences know the form in their bones, they know that romantic comedies end in an uplifting way.

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

I think the fact that I'm married to Julia, people like to take shots at me.

It all depends what you look like. If you look like hell and walk down the street, they think you're just another bum. If you're being cool, you TV people don't get recognized. But if you're going to sign autographs and records, then you'll have some trouble.

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.