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" I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.' "

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" I was really proud to be in that show. I will never forget. I got the script to 'Millie,' and I'm flipping through the script and saying, 'Boy, I have some lines... I have a big song.' I was 25 years old and had never been on Broadway before. I got to the end of the script, and I was really nervous and excited. I realized I had a lot to do. "

" It doesn't inspire young men and women struggling with their own sexuality to be confident in who they are if I'm not confident in who I am. "

" I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen. "

" I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively. "

" I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place. "

" I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard. "

" I'm pretty independent. "

" We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period. "

" I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.' "

" I was in 'Hair,' which didn't work in London, but it was a show we all believed in. "

" I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in. "

" I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful. "

" I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors. "

" I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them. "

" I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through. "

" At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.' "

" I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals. "

" I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them. "

" When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified. "

" I'd be lying if I said that I didn't want to do a TV show or movie, but life comes first, and then there's business. If this business doesn't allow me to have my life, then I'll do something else and be a happier man. "

" I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.' "

" There's no way you can deliver 'the greatest musical of the century.' "

" It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.' "

" Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I got behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's going to do. The day he was elected president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world history - good and bad. "

" I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me. "

" I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch. "

" Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C. "

" To be an actor, it's really tough to find your own voice because you're always tied to other characters and going to auditions and trying to get a job, hoping they'll pick you. And I think it's just so important for an actor to have something else that's creative, something that's creative and you're in charge of. "

" I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when it's bad, there's nothing worse. "

" I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us. "