Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Groff

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

It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.

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

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

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.

I was obsessed with Nintendo.

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

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.

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.

There's something special about 'Looking.'

I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'

My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.

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

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

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.

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

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.

Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I've never had trouble sleeping in my life.

If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them.

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

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.

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!

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.

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.

As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

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.

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.

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

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.

I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.

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

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

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.

I smile a lot in my real life.

I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.

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.'

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.

I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.

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

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

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

After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow.

As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.

I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram.

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

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.

The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele.

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.

Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'

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.