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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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To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.
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I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.
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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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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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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 think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.
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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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We all should be so lucky to be as optimistic as SpongeBob.
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There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
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I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.
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The sort of stereotypical wrestling practice is that you're doing burpees, and the coach is yelling at you to keep going, and you feel like you're going to collapse, but you somehow make it through to the end.
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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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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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I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.
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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 love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.
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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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You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.
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