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" I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life. "

" The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea. "

" There is really nothing like doing a play in New York. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself. "

" My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director. "

" I smile a lot in my real life. "

" There's not a lot of gay programming on TV. "

" I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances. "

" I'm a singer who moves well. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing. "

" I love going to the movies. "

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

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

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

" As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams. "

" I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school. "

" 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. "

" I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, there's nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it's on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour. "

" 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. "

" 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. "