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" Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is. "

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" 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 smile a lot in my real life. "

" I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it. "

" I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade. "

" Some people have the gift where they can just sing. I don't have the fail-safe voice, so it has to be something that I need to sing about. "

" If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it. "

" For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood. "

" I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned. "

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" 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.' "

" I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's one thing to experience your Broadway debut alone, but to share it with an entire company was like summer camp or a college experience, where you were really growing up together. "

" I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun. "

" I'm a singer who moves well. "

" Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone. "

" 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. "

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

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" In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars. "

" I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius. "

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

" While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so. "

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

" 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. "