128 Quotes by Jonathan Groff

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.

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.

I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you’re working on it, or that’s been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it’s over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.

I’m kind of whatever about nudity. Hopefully I wouldn’t be a part of anything, whether I’m naked or not, that I didn’t believe in. But I’m pretty comfortable being naked.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous – it’s whatever you want it to be.

My mother’s side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values – sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it’s like you’re trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you’re in the audience.

But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn’t want to be.

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