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" I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale. "

Jonathan Groff

High School

Childhood

Time

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Stillness

" Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone. "

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

" I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of. "

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

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

" Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jonathan Groff

Music

Passion

" After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow. "

Jonathan Groff

Spring

Grow

" 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. "

" When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. "

Jonathan Groff

Work

Together

" Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.' "

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

Jonathan Groff

Someone

Really

" Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "