Zitat des Tages von Gavin Creel:
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 think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.
When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it.
Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C.
I've always had a plan for my music career.
I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.
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 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 have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'
I can't live without my music player.
I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.
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.
We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.
Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings.
I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.
It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.
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.
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 love Kim Kardashian. There, I've said it.
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.
I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively.
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.'
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.
I am a showoff, the third of three kids.
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.
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.
I'm not much for formality.
I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me.
I love Jason Robert Brown.
The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.
My life is my life, and I'll live it.
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 think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard.
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'm tired of all the angry stuff out there.