226 Quotes by Neil Patrick Harris

It’s good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you’re offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.

I’ve been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter. I’ve always enjoyed the process and always enjoyed working more really than the end result of what it achieves. I’m more interested in doing the work.

Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It’s easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I’m gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

I think flirting is great fun. It doesn’t mean that anything’s going to come of it but it’s fun to be told that you’re hot and that your tits look great. You all get your pens out.

I’m wildly impressed with the diversity of gay roles.

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it’s fun to have some complications there.

If I’m doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I’ll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it’s important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I’ve always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.