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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.
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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.
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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.
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Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
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We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.
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I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
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I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.
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As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.
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I was obsessed with Nintendo.
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I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'
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Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.
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If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them.
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I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.
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The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.
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There's something special about 'Looking.'
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When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.
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I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.
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After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow.
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My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.
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I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.
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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.
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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.
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If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.
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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.
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I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.
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I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius.
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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.
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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.
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Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO.
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When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.
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