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

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" Trying to sound good at 10 A.M. is the worst. "

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

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

" I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times. "

" It's one thing to experience your Broadway debut alone, but to share it with an entire company was like summer camp or a college experience, where you were really growing up together. "

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

" 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 grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just 'watching' the Tony Awards on TV - I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids. "

" 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. "

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

" I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor. "

" I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius. "

" I smile a lot in my real life. "

" I feel like loyalty is such a rare quality in this world, particularly the entertainment world. "

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

" As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist. "

" We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest. "

" With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy. "

" 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 was journaling in Florence, and I was like, 'Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy' - he was my 'roommate.' So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation. "

" 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. "

" I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. "

" I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "