Jonathan Groff Quotes
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I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'
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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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Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.
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For me, there's nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it's on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour.
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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.
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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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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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Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO.
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I'm a singer who moves well.
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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 was obsessed with Nintendo.
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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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Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.
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I smile a lot in my real 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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My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.
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It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.
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It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.
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I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.
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Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.
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I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.
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I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.
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Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
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The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele.