Quotes from Gavin Creel

I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively.

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?

I was in 'Hair,' which didn't work in London, but it was a show we all believed in.

To be an actor, it's really tough to find your own voice because you're always tied to other characters and going to auditions and trying to get a job, hoping they'll pick you. And I think it's just so important for an actor to have something else that's creative, something that's creative and you're in charge of.

I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.'

I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard.

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I got behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's going to do. The day he was elected president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world history - good and bad.

It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.'

When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified.

One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn't because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn't believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world.

Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for '30 Rock,' but it's always funny because you're in this almost two-dimensional world where there's Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That's the framework.

I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.

I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.

I love Jason Robert Brown.

The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave you in the dust.

Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.

The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.

I love Kim Kardashian. There, I've said it.

I was never late to a show more often than 'La Cage.' Because I lived close, and I didn't really do anything in that show.

It doesn't inspire young men and women struggling with their own sexuality to be confident in who they are if I'm not confident in who I am.

I'd be lying if I said that I didn't want to do a TV show or movie, but life comes first, and then there's business. If this business doesn't allow me to have my life, then I'll do something else and be a happier man.

I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.

I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through.