Jonathan Groff Quotes
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Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'
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I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.
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I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.
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I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.
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A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
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When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
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I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.
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When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think.
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I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.
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I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em.
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With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.
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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.
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There's something special about 'Looking.'
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I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.
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As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams.
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Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'
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For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.
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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.
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I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.
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Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.
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I was obsessed with Nintendo.
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I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius.
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I just don't know artistically - because I don't write my own music - I don't know artistically what an album would mean for me. I don't know what I would want to say with an album that would be unique to me - something that hasn't been done before. I'm just not sure what that is. But I'm absolutely open to it.
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Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.