Jonathan Groff Quotes
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There is really nothing like doing a play in New York.
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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 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.
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I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my 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 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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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 can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.
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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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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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With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.
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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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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'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.
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For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.
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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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I was obsessed with Nintendo.
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Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.
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It's one thing to experience your Broadway debut alone, but to share it with an entire company was like summer camp or a college experience, where you were really growing up together.
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Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.
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I'm a singer who moves well.
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I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.
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When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.
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We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.