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" I'm a singer who moves well. "
Jonathan Groff
Moves
Singer
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" There is really nothing like doing a play in New York. "
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" 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. "
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" I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times. "
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" I was obsessed with Nintendo. "
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" I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn. "
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" I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania. "
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" I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When I was 20 years old, I got cast in 'Spring Awakening' and got swept up in this experience where it was kind of tunnel vision. We were working - it was nonstop. "
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" I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way. "
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" I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor. "
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" 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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" There's not a lot of gay programming on TV. "
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Programming
" I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite. "
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" Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone. "
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" In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience. "
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" Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful. "
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" The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea. "
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" 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. "
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" I love going to the movies. "
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" My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director. "
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" When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting. "
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" 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. "
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" I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites. "
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" I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season. "
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