Jonathan Groff Quotes
-
I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training.
-
I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.
-
'Spring Awakening' was a discovery for all involved. None of us will ever have that specific sense of revelation in the same way - that is probably the thing I miss the most.
-
It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original.
-
The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.
-
I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.
-
When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.
-
I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.
-
When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
-
Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.
-
In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.
-
A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
-
Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.
-
I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.
-
There is really nothing like doing a play in New York.
-
There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.
-
I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram.
-
I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.
-
I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.
-
'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.
-
I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again.
-
I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.
-
Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.
-
For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.