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" I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out. "

Neil Patrick Harris

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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. "

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" I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able. "

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" I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid. "

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" When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else. "

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" 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. "

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" I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus. "

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" 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that. "

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" In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. "

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