Jonathan Groff Quotes

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Jonathan Groff

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 26, 1985

I smile a lot in my real life.

Jonathan Groff

I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything.

Jonathan Groff

Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.

Jonathan Groff

I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade.

Jonathan Groff

I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.

Jonathan Groff

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.

Jonathan Groff

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience.

Jonathan Groff

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

Jonathan Groff

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

Jonathan Groff

When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.

Jonathan Groff

Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'

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While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so.

Jonathan Groff

Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.

Jonathan Groff

I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans.

Jonathan Groff

I feel like loyalty is such a rare quality in this world, particularly the entertainment world.

Jonathan Groff

People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.

Jonathan Groff

I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.

Jonathan Groff

I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'

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Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

Jonathan Groff

I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em.

Jonathan Groff