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" Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on. "

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" I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd. "

" 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. "

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

" I love going to the movies. "

" With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy. "

" I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training. "

" When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else. "

" It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior. "

" 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. "

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

" I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em. "

" When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius. "

" I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite. "

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

" 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. "

" As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist. "

" I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times. "

" 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. "

" It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you. "

" Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is. "

" 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. "

" The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though! "