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" I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there. "
Gavin Creel
Routine
Me
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" 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. "
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" I want to know that I'm proud of what I'm doing. "
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" I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me. "
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" 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. "
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" Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings. "
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" The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle. "
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" I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them. "
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" Sometimes when I do a musical, they'll be a scene that comes up, and I'm like, 'Oh, I hate this scene,' but you get through it. "
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" I'm tired of all the angry stuff out there. "
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" 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. "
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" I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively. "
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" 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. "
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Blue
Place
" Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for '30 Rock,' but it's always funny because you're in this almost two-dimensional world where there's Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That's the framework. "
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" 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. "
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Singing
Great
" I'm pretty independent. "
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Pretty
" 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. "
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Time
World
Life
" 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. "
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" One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn't because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn't believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world. "
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" I am a showoff, the third of three kids. "
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" The older I've gotten, and the more that I've worked, I cherish that I'm an Ohio boy because, at the end of the day, I believe that I'm a talented person; I believe that I work really hard, but I think that the main reason I'm successful is because I'm kind, I'm easy to work with, and I'm a team player. "
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" Some scenes are just more people's thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make of it. If I want her loud and lively, she's there. If I want sunsets and starlight, Battery Park, here I come. "
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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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" Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C. "
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" The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that? "
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