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" I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.' "

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" I want to be a poster boy for the uncool. "

" You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating to most people. I was intimidated by it. I mean, calling my senator or writing my senator? I'm like, what do I say? What do I do? But we're showing people that the political process is actually less intimidating than we think. "

" I love Kim Kardashian. There, I've said it. "

" 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. "

" 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 have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. "

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

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

" There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it. "

" I'm not much for formality. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm tired of all the angry stuff out there. "

" 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. "

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

" I want to know that I'm proud of what I'm doing. "

" I've always had a plan for my music career. "

" The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.' "

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

" 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 have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen. "

" Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me. "

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" 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. "