Jonathan Groff Quotes
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There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.
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When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
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I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.
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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've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius.
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I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.
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With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.
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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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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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A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
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I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.
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There's something special about 'Looking.'
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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 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 love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.
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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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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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For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.
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Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.
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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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I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade.
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Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.