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" I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.' "
Jonathan Groff
Super
Beat
Bros
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" 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.' "
Jonathan Groff
Beast
Bus
See
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
Yourself
You
Want
" If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it. "
Jonathan Groff
Someone
Really
Me
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
Seen
City
Some
" I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn. "
Jonathan Groff
Halloween
Lipstick
Production
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
You
New York
Amazing
" I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em. "
Jonathan Groff
Credit
Just
Lucky
" Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO. "
Jonathan Groff
Show
Doing
HBO
" As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist. "
Jonathan Groff
Exist
Even
Actor
" There's something special about 'Looking.' "
Jonathan Groff
Special
Something
Looking
" I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd. "
Jonathan Groff
Audience
Myself
Love
" Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend. "
Jonathan Groff
Putting
Costume
Playing
" A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second. "
Jonathan Groff
Me
Back
Broadway
" Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is. "
Jonathan Groff
You
Environment
Know
" When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it. "
Jonathan Groff
Anybody
Art
Piece
" I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite. "
Jonathan Groff
Gay
Fact
Been
" I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training. "
Jonathan Groff
Been
Career
Through
" For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood. "
Jonathan Groff
Halloween
Gone
Hood
" I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. "
Jonathan Groff
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
" The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea. "
Jonathan Groff
Step
Understanding
Powerful
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
You
Theatre
New
" I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites. "
Jonathan Groff
Never
Online
Web
" My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director. "
Jonathan Groff
First
Director
Right
" Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.' "
Jonathan Groff
Closet
You
Will
" Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing. "
Jonathan Groff
King
Stillness
Me
" I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season. "
Jonathan Groff
Feel
Always
You
" Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful. "
Jonathan Groff
Out
Painful
Relief
" The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school. "
Jonathan Groff
Find
You
School
" I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans. "
Jonathan Groff
Music
Thought
College
" With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy. "
Jonathan Groff
Want
Feel
Empathy