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

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" 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 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 got cast for 'Spring Awakening' when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment. "

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

" I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before. "

" I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience. "

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

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

" 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! "

" I love going to the movies. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" There's something special about 'Looking.' "

" I've never had trouble sleeping in my life. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just 'watching' the Tony Awards on TV - I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids. "

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

" I smile a lot in my real life. "

" I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night. "

" Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them. "

" I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor. "