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" 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. "

Gavin Creel

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" I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.' "

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

" There's no way you can deliver 'the greatest musical of the century.' "

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

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

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" I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard. "

" Sometimes when I do a musical, they'll be a scene that comes up, and I'm like, 'Oh, I hate this scene,' but you get through it. "

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" I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place. "

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

" I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.' "

" Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C. "

" I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen. "

" I can't live without my music player. "

" 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. "

" It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice. "

" I'm tired of all the angry stuff out there. "

" I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. "

" 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. "

" I'd be lying if I said that I didn't want to do a TV show or movie, but life comes first, and then there's business. If this business doesn't allow me to have my life, then I'll do something else and be a happier man. "

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" 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.' "

" I want to know that I'm proud of what I'm doing. "

" The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.' "

" I'm a huge 'South Park' fan, loved 'Avenue Q,' and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez, and Casey Nicholaw. "

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

" 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. "

" It doesn't inspire young men and women struggling with their own sexuality to be confident in who they are if I'm not confident in who I am. "

" I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions. "

" I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them. "

" 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. "