Jonathan Groff Quotes

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

Jonathan Groff

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• I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Running
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Think
  • Science
  • Loved

• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Care
  • Body
  • More

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Experience
  • Nice

• I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • Why
  • Business

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Different
  • Important

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Full
  • Brown
  • Chris

• I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Girls
  • Inspiring
  • Watch

• I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Ugly
  • Devil
  • Colors

• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Think
  • Death
  • Rest

• The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Way
  • Product
  • Only

• Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Time
  • New
  • New York

• I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Works

• You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

  

  Socrates
  • Know
  • Never
  • Next

• How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • True

• The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Achieve
  • Reverse

• There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Perfect

• We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Choice
  • Non-Existence

• I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

  

  Jonathan Groff