Ben Platt Quotes

United States, Actor
September 24, 1993

Benjamin Schiff Platt is an American actor and singer known for his portayal of the title character in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen, a performance for which he has won numerous awards, including the 2017 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Platt's credits also include the role of Elder Arnold Cunningham in The Book of Mormon, as well as Benji Applebaum in the musical films Pitch Perfect (2012) and Pitch Perfect 2 (2015).

Also known as Singer

I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.

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- Proud
- Struggle
- Anxiety
We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.

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- People
- Time
- Done

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'

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- Perfect
- Weekend
From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.

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'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro - she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She's the most mature girl ever.

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- Great
- She
- Girl
I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.

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- Birthday
There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

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There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.

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- Up
- World
- Growing

If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would want to write my first original musical, it would hands-down have been Pasek and Paul.

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- Future