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" When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour. "

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" Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you. "

Jonathan Groff

Always

You

Think

" 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. "

" When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. "

Jonathan Groff

Work

Together

" Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person. "

" I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts. "

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

" People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest. "

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

" A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second. "

Jonathan Groff

Back

Broadway

" Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful. "

" I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of. "

" The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school. "

" I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.' "

" Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO. "

" I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me. "

Jonathan Groff

Music

Passion

" I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training. "

" It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original. "

" I just don't know artistically - because I don't write my own music - I don't know artistically what an album would mean for me. I don't know what I would want to say with an album that would be unique to me - something that hasn't been done before. I'm just not sure what that is. But I'm absolutely open to it. "

Jonathan Groff

Say

Unique

" Trying to sound good at 10 A.M. is the worst. "

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

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

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

" I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life. "

" I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school. "

" I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything. "

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

" 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. "

" I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em. "

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

" I smile a lot in my real life. "