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" When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified. "

" The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that? "

" I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them. "

" Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I got behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's going to do. The day he was elected president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world history - good and bad. "

" There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it. "

" The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave you in the dust. "

" I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful. "

" Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for '30 Rock,' but it's always funny because you're in this almost two-dimensional world where there's Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That's the framework. "

" I was never late to a show more often than 'La Cage.' Because I lived close, and I didn't really do anything in that show. "

" Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me. "

Musical Theater

" At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.' "

" Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings. "

" I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in. "

" I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors. "

" You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating to most people. I was intimidated by it. I mean, calling my senator or writing my senator? I'm like, what do I say? What do I do? But we're showing people that the political process is actually less intimidating than we think. "

" I am a showoff, the third of three kids. "

" One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn't because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn't believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world. "

" I've always had a plan for my music career. "

" I want to be a poster boy for the uncool. "

" I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through. "

" We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period. "

" I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention. "

" I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance. "

" I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.' "

" I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.' "

" After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly. "

" I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.' "

" I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us. "

" The older I've gotten, and the more that I've worked, I cherish that I'm an Ohio boy because, at the end of the day, I believe that I'm a talented person; I believe that I work really hard, but I think that the main reason I'm successful is because I'm kind, I'm easy to work with, and I'm a team player. "