Quotes from Jonathan Groff

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.

'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.

I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade.

There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.

The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original.

I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.

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

As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.

While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so.

I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.

I feel like loyalty is such a rare quality in this world, particularly the entertainment world.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.

When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em.

I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again.

My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.

The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele.

I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.