Jonathan Groff Quotes
I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
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I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
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I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
