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" I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me. "

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" 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. "

" Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them. "

" I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.' "

" As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams. "

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

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

" I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest. "

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

" I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites. "

" I've never had trouble sleeping in my life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal. "

" Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing. "

" I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite. "