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" We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Think
Politics
Respect
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" I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that. "
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" I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there. "
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" We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys. "
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" Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight. "
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" We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday. "
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" I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example. "
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" I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys. "
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" I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. "
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" I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami. "
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" I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets. "
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Man
Life
" You just take things as they come. "
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" Mmmmmmmm. Anderson. He's dreamy. Just dreamy. I've been a fan of his since season 1 of 'The Mole.' I just thought he was so cool when he talked in this cool, low, secret-agent voice. "
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" I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing. "
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" The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play. "
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Doing
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" There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs. "
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" I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice. "
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" I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'. "
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" I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus. "
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" I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up. "
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" I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact. "
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" I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting. "
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" I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net. "
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" I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that. "
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" I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot. "
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" I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy. "
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" What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done. "
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" I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform. "
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" 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that. "
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" The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now. "
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