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" I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just 'watching' the Tony Awards on TV - I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids. "

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" 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

" For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood. "

" I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor. "

" 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. "

" I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite. "

" People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest. "

" 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. "

" 'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of. "

Jonathan Groff

Looking

Television

" 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. "

Jonathan Groff

Three

Singing

" 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. "

" For me, there's nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it's on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour. "

" I smile a lot in my real life. "

" As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was obsessed with Nintendo. "

Jonathan Groff

Nintendo

Obsessed

" I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training. "

" 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. "

Jonathan Groff

Say

Unique

" 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. "

" I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites. "

" When I was 20 years old, I got cast in 'Spring Awakening' and got swept up in this experience where it was kind of tunnel vision. We were working - it was nonstop. "

" When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal. "

" 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.' "

" I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.' "

" The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea. "

" Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.' "

" Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.' "

" It's one thing to experience your Broadway debut alone, but to share it with an entire company was like summer camp or a college experience, where you were really growing up together. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them. "