John Lloyd Young Quotes

United States, Actor
July 4, 1975

John Lloyd Mills Young is an American actor and singer. In 2006, he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his role as Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys. He is the only American actor to date to have received a Lead Actor in a Musical Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Award for a Broadway debut. Young sang lead vocals on the Grammy-award winning Jersey Boys cast album, certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Young reprised his role as Frankie Valli in Warner Brothers' film adaptation of Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood and released June 20, 2014.

Also known as Singer

I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I had sort of discovered it by accident as a child or a young adult when you realize you have a special skill that you don't really have any use for you, and you just take it out at parties or to amuse your friends or to annoy your girlfriends.

John Lloyd Young
- Realize
- Skill
- Falsetto
I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

John Lloyd Young
- Work
- Stage
- Screen

I'm looking for smart friends all the time.

John Lloyd Young
- Friends
- Smart
- Looking
The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.

John Lloyd Young
- Career
- Actor
- Embracing
Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

John Lloyd Young
- Life
- Artist
- Brilliant
My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.

John Lloyd Young
- Child
- Acting
- Broadway
When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.

John Lloyd Young
- Idea
- Marketing
- Role
But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

John Lloyd Young
- Character
- Show
- Script

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

John Lloyd Young
- Actor
- Part
- Musicals
During 'Jersey Boys,' I discovered one of the most rewarding ways to use your goodwill is to motivate fans and friends into lending support to charity.

John Lloyd Young
- Support
- Fans
- Charity