Ethan Slater Quotes
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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 more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.
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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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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 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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I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.
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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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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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We all should be so lucky to be as optimistic as SpongeBob.
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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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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 love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.
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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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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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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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I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.