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When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
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I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'
Jonathan Groff
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For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.
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A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
Jonathan Groff -
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.
Jonathan Groff -
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.
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It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.
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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.
Jonathan Groff
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When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.
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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.
Jonathan Groff -
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.
Jonathan Groff -
With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.
Jonathan Groff -
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.
Jonathan Groff -
Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO.
Jonathan Groff
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The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele.
Jonathan Groff -
'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.
Jonathan Groff -
I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.
Jonathan Groff -
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.'
Jonathan Groff -
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.
Jonathan Groff -
There's something special about 'Looking.'
Jonathan Groff
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I've never had trouble sleeping in my life.
Jonathan Groff -
There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.
Jonathan Groff -
I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius.
Jonathan Groff -
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.
Jonathan Groff