Jonathan Groff Quotes

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Jonathan Groff

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 26, 1985

It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original.

Jonathan Groff

I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.

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I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius.

Jonathan Groff

I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.

Jonathan Groff

The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

Jonathan Groff

Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO.

Jonathan Groff

Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.

Jonathan Groff

I got cast for 'Spring Awakening' when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment.

Jonathan Groff

I was journaling in Florence, and I was like, 'Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy' - he was my 'roommate.' So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation.

Jonathan Groff

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

Jonathan Groff

I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.

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When I was 20 years old, I got cast in 'Spring Awakening' and got swept up in this experience where it was kind of tunnel vision. We were working - it was nonstop.

Jonathan Groff

I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.

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I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

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I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.

Jonathan Groff

I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.

Jonathan Groff

The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though!

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I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.

Jonathan Groff

I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of.

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I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.

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