Ethan Slater Quotes
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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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To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.
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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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I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.
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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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I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.
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We all should be so lucky to be as optimistic as 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 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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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 think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.
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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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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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I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.
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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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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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You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.
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I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.