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" In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars. "

Jonathan Groff

You

New York

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

" 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. "

" If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them. "

" 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

" Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful. "

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

" I feel like loyalty is such a rare quality in this world, particularly the entertainment world. "

" I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country! "

" I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before. "

Jonathan Groff

Three

Singing

" 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. "

" I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season. "

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

" 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. "

" Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Jonathan Groff

High School

High

" I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again. "

" We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest. "

Jonathan Groff

Club

You

" I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. "

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

Jonathan Groff

Back

Broadway

" 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.' "

" 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

" The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "