Jonathan Groff Quotes
I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
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MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world - but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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It takes a while to establish a character. Richard Boone once told me he didn't really get the character in 'Have Gun - Will Travel' until the 16th show. You just plant a seed, water it, let the sun shine on it, and hope it blooms.
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I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of.
