Quotes from Jonathan Groff

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

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.

I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.

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

I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.

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!

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.

A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.

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

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

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

I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.

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

I loved 'Weekend,' and it meant a lot to me when I saw it in the movie theater. I think 'Looking' feels more like that movie than any of those other shows, with a little more comedy thrown in than 'Weekend.' But it's certainly got the vibe and look and feeling of that movie.

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

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.

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.