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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second. "

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

" I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances. "

" The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though! "

" 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. "

" There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself. "

" I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school. "

" 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. "

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

" I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun. "

" 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. "

" 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 am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times. "

" I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before. "

" While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so. "

" I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 smile a lot in my real life. "

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

" I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.' "

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

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