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" A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second. "

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" There's something special about 'Looking.' "

" I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale. "

" I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.' "

" I smile a lot in my real life. "

" I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going. "

" With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy. "

" We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest. "

" I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before. "

" I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.' "

" The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea. "

" I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites. "

" I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way. "

" I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times. "

" For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood. "

" The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though! "

" When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour. "

" I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school. "

" Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them. "

" I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. "

" When I was 20 years old, I got cast in 'Spring Awakening' and got swept up in this experience where it was kind of tunnel vision. We were working - it was nonstop. "

" I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite. "

" Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person. "

" I loved 'Weekend,' and it meant a lot to me when I saw it in the movie theater. I think 'Looking' feels more like that movie than any of those other shows, with a little more comedy thrown in than 'Weekend.' But it's certainly got the vibe and look and feeling of that movie. "

" I was obsessed with Nintendo. "

" As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist. "

" Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you. "

" I'm a singer who moves well. "

" It's one thing to experience your Broadway debut alone, but to share it with an entire company was like summer camp or a college experience, where you were really growing up together. "

" I've never had trouble sleeping in my life. "

" I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything. "