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" Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master. "
Jonathan Groff
Nicest
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" Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing. "
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" 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. "
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" I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.' "
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" In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience. "
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" I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show. "
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" When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else. "
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" I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of. "
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" I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned. "
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" Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them. "
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" When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting. "
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" Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.' "
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" If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it. "
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" I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times. "
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" With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy. "
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" Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on. "
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" Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy. "
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" My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director. "
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" I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life. "
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" Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful. "
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" I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again. "
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" 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. "
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" I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor. "
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" In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I smile a lot in my real life. "
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" It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original. "
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" There's not a lot of gay programming on TV. "
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