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" When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour. "

" 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. "

" After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow. "

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

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

" When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it. "

" 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. "

" If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it. "

" I smile a lot in my real life. "

" Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone. "

" 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 love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts. "

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

" I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life. "

" It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you. "

" I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country! "

" It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior. "

" 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. "

" When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting. "

" It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original. "

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

" Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you. "

" I was obsessed with Nintendo. "

" I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of. "