Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by Gavin Creel
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Gavin Creel.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals.
I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.'
I'd be lying if I said that I didn't want to do a TV show or movie, but life comes first, and then there's business. If this business doesn't allow me to have my life, then I'll do something else and be a happier man.
I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.
I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch.
When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it.
It doesn't inspire young men and women struggling with their own sexuality to be confident in who they are if I'm not confident in who I am.
There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.
I love Jason Robert Brown.
Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.
I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there.
I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.
I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.
My life is my life, and I'll live it.
I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.
I love Kim Kardashian. There, I've said it.
I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention.
I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively.
I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard.
One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn't because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn't believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world.
I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'
I'm a huge 'South Park' fan, loved 'Avenue Q,' and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez, and Casey Nicholaw.
Some scenes are just more people's thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make of it. If I want her loud and lively, she's there. If I want sunsets and starlight, Battery Park, here I come.
I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.
I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.
The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.
It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.'
I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.'
The older I've gotten, and the more that I've worked, I cherish that I'm an Ohio boy because, at the end of the day, I believe that I'm a talented person; I believe that I work really hard, but I think that the main reason I'm successful is because I'm kind, I'm easy to work with, and I'm a team player.
At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.'
The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave you in the dust.
I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions.
I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.
Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for '30 Rock,' but it's always funny because you're in this almost two-dimensional world where there's Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That's the framework.
You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating to most people. I was intimidated by it. I mean, calling my senator or writing my senator? I'm like, what do I say? What do I do? But we're showing people that the political process is actually less intimidating than we think.
Maybe some of the pronouns have changed, but I've always been honest in my music.
I want to know that I'm proud of what I'm doing.
Sometimes when I do a musical, they'll be a scene that comes up, and I'm like, 'Oh, I hate this scene,' but you get through it.
I'm tired of all the angry stuff out there.
I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when it's bad, there's nothing worse.
I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.
Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I got behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's going to do. The day he was elected president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world history - good and bad.
I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through.
My mom and dad have always, always, and continue to be the most incredible citizens of the world and most generous in quiet ways, that I strive to do even a fraction of what they do.
I've always had a plan for my music career.
When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified.
I can't live without my music player.
After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.
I was never late to a show more often than 'La Cage.' Because I lived close, and I didn't really do anything in that show.
I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.
I am a showoff, the third of three kids.
To be an actor, it's really tough to find your own voice because you're always tied to other characters and going to auditions and trying to get a job, hoping they'll pick you. And I think it's just so important for an actor to have something else that's creative, something that's creative and you're in charge of.
I am not a sex symbol of the Broadway community. I know guys who are, and I say, 'Rock it out.' But I'm more comfortable in a different land. I don't know what land it is, but not that one.
I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them.
I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.
I'm not much for formality.
I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place.
I was really proud to be in that show. I will never forget. I got the script to 'Millie,' and I'm flipping through the script and saying, 'Boy, I have some lines... I have a big song.' I was 25 years old and had never been on Broadway before. I got to the end of the script, and I was really nervous and excited. I realized I had a lot to do.
Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C.
I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'
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