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Jonathan Groff Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1985

Topics

Love People Feel Place Create Kid

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

Jim Talent

Alone Government People World Energy

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

Jenny Holzer

Life World Chance Think Fake Enough

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

Andrew Forrest

Good Feel Good Feel Giving You Say

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

Michael Douglas

Women Relationship Me Career Meet

When I walked up on stage at the Emmys, and when people stood up, it was a really sort of emotional, overwhelming moment. It was like I had been accepted.

Sterling K. Brown

Moment People Stage Emotional Up

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Tom Cruise

Yourself Surprise Moments You Acting

I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea.

Rollie Fingers

You Down Place Worst Minnesota Idea

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison. I think I read it first in college and have read it every few years since. The language itself is remarkable. I don't know that I've read a book that explains America so well.

Ross Gay

College Book Think Language America

Just because I could model didn't automatically mean I could act.

Molly Sims

Just Because Mean Act Because Just

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

Julia Cameron

Faith Time Creativity Creative Page

I've done a lot of research about the Civil Rights movement, and I'm fascinated with how difficult it would have been for a black man to show feelings toward a white woman in that time period.

Joshua Henry

Time Woman Man Research Black White

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Dolly Parton

Love Heart Money People Me Song