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" A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart joke.' "

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" I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage. "

" My dream would be to have 50 people in a show with each person from a different country. "

" I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men. "

" I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way. "

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" I really enjoy 'The Beauty Is' from 'Light in the Piazza.' "

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" I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return. "

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" I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks. "

" It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.' "

" You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile. "

" Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true. "

" My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate. "

" When you step off a plane into a place like Haiti, you're just surrounded by overwhelming stimulus: the people selling you things, asking you to engage. "

" I tend to ask more questions than I should as an actor. "

" The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time. "

" We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it. "

" There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link. "

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" I want to create an environment that actors can be really free in. "

" I read 'Huffington Post' as if I am a shareholder. "

" Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity. "

" The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able to share and create so much art with a group of people I would have never imagined sharing and creating with. It's a true testament to the power of theater. There are no walls. "

" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "

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" So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was. "