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" I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd. "
Jonathan Groff
Audience
Myself
Love
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" I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade. "
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Pride
Remember
Parents
" I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of. "
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Most
Say
Important
" I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances. "
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Broadway
Three
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
Better
Doing
Learn
" I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything. "
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Hate
Social Media
Dating
" I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life. "
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Believe
My Life
Life
" I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania. "
Jonathan Groff
School
High School
Say
" If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it. "
Jonathan Groff
Someone
Really
Me
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
Experience
World
Living
" '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
Me
Television
" 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. "
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Think
Better
Experience
" I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor. "
Jonathan Groff
Before
Gay
Myself
" Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing. "
Jonathan Groff
King
Stillness
Me
" Some people have the gift where they can just sing. I don't have the fail-safe voice, so it has to be something that I need to sing about. "
Jonathan Groff
Gift
Some People
People
" There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself. "
Jonathan Groff
Kind
Yourself
Because
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
People
Looking
Gay
" I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it. "
Jonathan Groff
Away
You
Television
" Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful. "
Jonathan Groff
Out
Painful
Relief
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
You
Theatre
New
" I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. "
Jonathan Groff
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
" A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second. "
Jonathan Groff
Me
Back
Broadway
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
Spring
New York
Living
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
Great
Painful
Dating
" I'm a singer who moves well. "
Jonathan Groff
Moves
Singer
Well
" 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. "
Jonathan Groff
Yourself
You
Want
" In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars. "
Jonathan Groff
You
New York
Amazing
" I loved 'Weekend,' and it meant a lot to me when I saw it in the movie theater. I think 'Looking' feels more like that movie than any of those other shows, with a little more comedy thrown in than 'Weekend.' But it's certainly got the vibe and look and feeling of that movie. "
Jonathan Groff
Looking
Me
Weekend
" 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
Me
" I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school. "
Jonathan Groff
School
Middle School
Messenger
" I feel like loyalty is such a rare quality in this world, particularly the entertainment world. "
Jonathan Groff
World
Quality
Loyalty