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" There's not a lot of gay programming on TV. "
Jonathan Groff
Gay
TV
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" I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites. "
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" With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy. "
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" Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing. "
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" I got cast for 'Spring Awakening' when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment. "
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" Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master. "
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" I've never had trouble sleeping in my life. "
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" I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country! "
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" In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience. "
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" I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season. "
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" I was obsessed with Nintendo. "
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" I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale. "
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" I love going to the movies. "
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" I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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