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" I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts. "
Know
Career
Arts
" I look a lot like my mom. I'm the only one of my siblings with red hair, and she had bright red hair. I always have felt incredibly connected to her. "
Connected
She
Red
" I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do. "
Love
Broadway
Lot
" In the room, when I'm playing SpongeBob, I'm optimistic and I'm happy, and I smile in the face of those who are upset in order to make them happier. You know, there's this overwhelming optimism. And I've been lucky enough to have that become a part of my life. I like to think that it's influenced me. "
Think
Smile
Happy
" I start with a pretty yoga-based warm-up. I do jumping jacks and burpees, and I do a lot of dynamic stretching. "
Jumping
Pretty
Lot
" I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be. "
Think
Little
Sometimes
" I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about. "
Say
You
Passionate
" I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin. "
Loved
Brothers
Marx
" I've gotten to meet Sara Bareilles a couple of times. I'm just a such a massive fan of hers, from her albums to 'Waitress' to everything that she does. To be a fan of somebody and then find out that they have a good heart and are kind is really heartwarming. "
She
Meet
Heart
" I was a wrestler in high school, and that was a pretty big part of my life. "
My Life
Life
High School
" I would say I'm the normal level of 'SpongeBob' fan, which is that it's been out since I was a kid, and it's part of the zeitgeist. "
Say
Out
Fan
" I would say that SpongeBob, at his core, is this optimistic, loving best friend. Getting to play him every day has sort of rubbed off on me and improved my life. "
Day
Life
Me
" My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play. That was where I first encountered music, through her. "
Music
House
Her
" One of my favorite pieces of fan mail was a gift that I got. It was a jar filled with handwritten nice thoughts. "
Fan
Got
Thoughts
" Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that. "
Thought
Better
Focus
" SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he's a little naive, maybe, but he's so optimistic and is able to put his love of his friends and family above everything else. "
Family
Love
Friends And Family
" The magnitude of being able to make my Broadway debut as SpongeBob in 'SpongeBob SquarePants' really only started to hit me when we took it out of town. "
Me
Started
Town
" The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own. "
You
Somebody
Your
" The process of finding my voice as SpongeBob was to start by watching what Tom Kenny did, trying to do an impression of sorts, and then forgetting all about it and letting the voice become a second-nature thing. "
Start
Process
Finding
" There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community. "
High
High School
School
" The sort of stereotypical wrestling practice is that you're doing burpees, and the coach is yelling at you to keep going, and you feel like you're going to collapse, but you somehow make it through to the end. "
You
Doing
End
" The whole cast and creative team were definitely aware of the 'This is the death of Broadway!' kind of thing about 'SpongeBob,' but we've been really ready to change people's minds. I'm really proud of being part of something that took the most creative route to a commercial entity. "
Death
Change
Creative
" To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical. "
Broadway
Little
Surprise
" When the show starts, I am in my SpongeBob stance, and I walk like SpongeBob, and the first step that I take, I am SpongeBob. "
First Step
Walk
Step
" Wrestling is a small, intimate sport. "
Wrestling
Intimate
Small
" You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really. "
Always
You
Say
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