American - Actor | March 26, 1985 -
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
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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.
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It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.
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I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training.
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I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.
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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.
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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.
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I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.
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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.
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Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
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We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.
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I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
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