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" As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist. "
Jonathan Groff
Exist
Even
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" I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night. "
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" After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow. "
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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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" Some people have the gift where they can just sing. I don't have the fail-safe voice, so it has to be something that I need to sing about. "
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" I was journaling in Florence, and I was like, 'Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy' - he was my 'roommate.' So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times. "
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" I just don't know artistically - because I don't write my own music - I don't know artistically what an album would mean for me. I don't know what I would want to say with an album that would be unique to me - something that hasn't been done before. I'm just not sure what that is. But I'm absolutely open to it. "
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" I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.' "
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" While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so. "
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Me
High School
High
" It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you. "
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Easy
Get
" I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season. "
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Always
You
" I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite. "
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Gay
Fact
Been
" The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal. "
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" I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. "
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Facebook
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" For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood. "
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Halloween
Gone
Hood
" 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.' "
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Beast
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See
" I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way. "
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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 never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites. "
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" There is really nothing like doing a play in New York. "
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" With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy. "
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" I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before. "
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Singing
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" I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training. "
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" When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting. "
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