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" Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop. "
Shop
Always
Move
" As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television. "
You
Theatre
People
" As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of. "
Actor
Got
Book
" At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals. "
Knew
Actor
Age
" Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one moment of their lives over and over, so you get really good at figuring out how to navigate it. TV was a huge adjustment for me because the script changes every episode, and you have a different set of circumstances. "
Character
Good
Know
" Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation. "
Where
Conversation
Gay
" I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that. "
I Feel Like
Feel
Clean
" I can't wake up at all without caffeine. "
Caffeine
Up
Wake
" If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false. "
Reason
False
You
" I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids. "
Kids
Mind
Really
" I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much. "
Me
Always
Will
" I love doing both theater and television. "
Doing
Television
Theater
" I'm 6'2 and not a small person. "
Small
Person
" I remember seeing 'Falsettos' on the Tonys in '92 and being like, 'What the hell was that show?' "
Show
Hell
Like
" I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me. "
Nebraska
Shake
Still
" I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes. "
Sometimes
You
Young
" It never occurred to me that one could just buy tickets to the Tonys. I figured you had to be invited. "
Me
Buy
Just
" I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst. "
Theater
Used
Community
" I've always been a huge fan of Tina Fey's. She's a very unique storyteller and has such a great voice and sense of character and comedy, and manages to do things that are oftentimes very broad but still have a lot of heart to them. "
Great
Unique
Voice
" I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York. "
New
Been
Moving
" I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh. "
Man
People
You
" I was a little boy who watched 'Solid Gold' every week and wanted to be a 'Solid Gold' dancer. And I would do very in-depth reenactments of 'Grease 2' and 'West Side Story' with my sister Natalie in our garage. I was a very theatrical kid. "
Story
Sister
Gold
" Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends. "
Group
Friends
Loving
" My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom. "
Mother
Stay-At-Home Mom
Mom
" Surround yourself with people who are going to support you regardless of what your sexual orientation is, and you can have a beautiful life filled with love. "
Love
Yourself
Beautiful
" When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up. "
Television
Story
Grace
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