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" You just take things as they come. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Take
Just
Things
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Nerdy
" Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation. "
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" The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now. "
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Many
Reaching
" 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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Music
" I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter. "
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Been
Very
Interesting
" I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. "
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Dancer
Ballet
Got
" My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun. "
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Time
Dance
Having Fun
" 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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Mother
Blessed
Doing
" 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. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Want
Camera
Down
" When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else. "
Neil Patrick Harris
MTV
Good
Going
" Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Fun
Great
Blue
" I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Enjoy
Thought
Always
" I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Now
Working
Right
" If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Love
Music
Sit
" I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Choose
Job
Me
" So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Live
Think
New York
" 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. "
Neil Patrick Harris
You
New York
New
" I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Said
Myself
Mean
" I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Another
Tape
Lot
" It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Chance
Good
Play
" 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. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Myself
Know
Life
" I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able. "
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Good
Good Things
Quality
" As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts. "
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You
Get
Play
" I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient. "
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Life
Thought
Thinking
" You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Think
Your
Standards
" I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career. "
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Career
Like
Move
" I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy. "
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Best
Karaoke
Ship
" It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Wind
You
Trust
" I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Ladder
Bit
Climb
" '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. "
Neil Patrick Harris
Great
Work
Marriage