Andrew Rannells Quotes
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Surround yourself with people who are going to support you regardless of what your sexual orientation is, and you can have a beautiful life filled with love.
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When I came out when I was 18, and I graduated from high school, and I felt like that was the time to officially say it, I surprised zero people in my family.
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In L.A., people will recognize me for doing 'Girls,' but have no idea that I have ever done anything on Broadway or can sing or dance or any of that stuff.
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I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.
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Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one moment of their lives over and over, so you get really good at figuring out how to navigate it. TV was a huge adjustment for me because the script changes every episode, and you have a different set of circumstances.
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I had to be clean-shaven all the time to play a Mormon missionary, so after I was done, I grew a mustache out of rebellion. It was actually very polarizing. I became attractive to a completely new group of people and also repulsive to a new group of people. The lesson: mustaches are divisive.
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I'm not friends with a lot of my exes, and I think there's a reason for that.
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
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My career, definitely, the early years were a little scattershot, in terms of - it was a little regional theater, it was a lot of voiceovers, it was a lot of random day jobs. I mean, it was hard. It was hard to scrap around, and once 'Hairspray' happened, then it all kind of clicked into place.
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Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.
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As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
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I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.
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I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
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I love doing both theater and television.
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Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
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I'm 6'2 and not a small person.
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I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.
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There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same language.
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I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.
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I would always pick pop songs and would sing them even if they were not correct for the audition - which didn't always get me a lot of jobs, but sometimes they did.