Jonathan Groff Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.
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I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.
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'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.
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I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.
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People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.
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I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.
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I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.
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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 was obsessed with Nintendo.
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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 love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.
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The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.
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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 grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just 'watching' the Tony Awards on TV - I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids.
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I'm a singer who moves well.
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Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.
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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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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.