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" My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid. "
Michael Arden
Me
Community
Grandparents
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" So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was. "
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" I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage. "
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" I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece - striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle. "
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" I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men. "
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" At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice. "
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" I tend to ask more questions than I should as an actor. "
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" If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning. "
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" Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of. "
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" Every decision you make has a consequence. "
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" The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things. "
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" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "
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" At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other's differences to help tell our stories together. "
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Best
End
Help
" As someone who lives with an animal, I think it's important to learn how to responsibly care for souls who don't have their own voice. They can't advocate for themselves. "
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Animal
Care
" My dream would be to have 50 people in a show with each person from a different country. "
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Dream
People
Country
" I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me. "
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Think
Sort
Safe Place
" Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component. "
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Work
Company
Magic
" I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way. "
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Looking
School
Looking Back
" It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.' "
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Deaf
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Doing
" I want to create an environment that actors can be really free in. "
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Create
Really
" I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks. "
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Think
How
Favorite
" A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart joke.' "
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Will
Go
Saying
" The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able to share and create so much art with a group of people I would have never imagined sharing and creating with. It's a true testament to the power of theater. There are no walls. "
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I Am
Power
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" I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal. "
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Animal
Feeling
" We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it. "
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Precious
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Living
" Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible. "
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Creating
Arts
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" I love Disney. "
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" We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears. "
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Ears
Listening
Learn
" Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL. "
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" The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time. "
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Time
Love
Looking
" Say you have a young black kid, and you come to see a Sondheim show. You love the material, but you look on stage, and you don't see anyone who looks like you. That puts a barrier between the audience and what they're trying to absorb. "
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Black
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