Ethan Slater Quotes
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The whole cast and creative team were definitely aware of the 'This is the death of Broadway!' kind of thing about 'SpongeBob,' but we've been really ready to change people's minds. I'm really proud of being part of something that took the most creative route to a commercial entity.
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You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.
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I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.
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The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.
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To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.
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Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.
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I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.
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SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he's a little naive, maybe, but he's so optimistic and is able to put his love of his friends and family above everything else.
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Yellow's never been a good color for me, but it's actually grown on me. I like it more than I used to!
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I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.
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I start with a pretty yoga-based warm-up. I do jumping jacks and burpees, and I do a lot of dynamic stretching.
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I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of my life and all my friends' lives and defined our humor, in a way.
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It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.
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When the show starts, I am in my SpongeBob stance, and I walk like SpongeBob, and the first step that I take, I am SpongeBob.
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We all should be so lucky to be as optimistic as SpongeBob.
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In the room, when I'm playing SpongeBob, I'm optimistic and I'm happy, and I smile in the face of those who are upset in order to make them happier. You know, there's this overwhelming optimism. And I've been lucky enough to have that become a part of my life. I like to think that it's influenced me.
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My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play. That was where I first encountered music, through her.
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One of my favorite pieces of fan mail was a gift that I got. It was a jar filled with handwritten nice thoughts.
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The magnitude of being able to make my Broadway debut as SpongeBob in 'SpongeBob SquarePants' really only started to hit me when we took it out of town.
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I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.