Quotes from Jonathan Groff

Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.

When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius.

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

I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just 'watching' the Tony Awards on TV - I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids.

I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.

People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.

I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.

If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back.

I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram.

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

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.

When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour.

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.

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.

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

I've never had trouble sleeping in my life.

Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.

I smile a lot in my real life.

I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.

I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'

I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything.

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

I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.