128 Quotes by Jonathan Groff

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.

In theater, you’re in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you’re the one who gets credit because you’re in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it’s the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.

When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think.

Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.

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.

For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.

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

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.

It's one thing to experience your Broadway debut alone, but to share it with an entire company was like summer camp or a college experience, where you were really growing up together.