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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though! "

" I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season. "

" 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. "

" The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele. "

" A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second. "

" There's something special about 'Looking.' "

" My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director. "

" 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. "

" I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything. "

" I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned. "

" 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. "

" I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale. "

" I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances. "

" I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience. "

" Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful. "

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

" I smile a lot in my real life. "

" There's not a lot of gay programming on TV. "

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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. "

" I got cast for 'Spring Awakening' when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment. "

" 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. "

" I love going to the movies. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend. "