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" I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Said
Myself
Mean
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" I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Good
Good Things
Quality
" A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Class
Club
Dance
" I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too. "
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Good
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Family
" I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Life
Thought
Thinking
" I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Jokes
Nice
People
" My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Own
Parents
Restaurant
" What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Changing
Work
Relationship
" I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Matter
You
Impact
" I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot. "
Neil Patrick Harris
You
Know
Losing
" I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Love
Fun
Games
" I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Green
Process
Say
" I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Nation
Relationships
Sexuality
" I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Choose
Job
Me
" When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things. "
Neil Patrick Harris
People
New Things
Love
" As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts. "
Neil Patrick Harris
You
Get
Play
" I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up. "
Neil Patrick Harris
People
Weird
Music
" I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Universal
Nut
Fan
" With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Way
Comedy
Home
" I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Nice
Think
Thought
" Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Good
Cool
Know
" The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Voice
Selfless
Said
" We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Think
Politics
Respect
" Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Film
Three
Back
" Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show. "
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Kind
Meat
Season
" I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door. "
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Think
Door
Leave
" I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Professional
Man
Life
" I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out. "
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Up
Show
Play
" I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami. "
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Rent
Private
Stay
" It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit. "
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Wind
You
Trust
" If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them. "
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Love
Music
Sit