I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.
Gavin Creel
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 don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions.
I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively.
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.
After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.
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.
I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard.
I want to know that I'm proud of what I'm doing.
Some scenes are just more people's thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make of it. If I want her loud and lively, she's there. If I want sunsets and starlight, Battery Park, here I come.
I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention.
I'm tired of all the angry stuff out there.
I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.
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 was really proud to be in that show. I will never forget. I got the script to 'Millie,' and I'm flipping through the script and saying, 'Boy, I have some lines... I have a big song.' I was 25 years old and had never been on Broadway before. I got to the end of the script, and I was really nervous and excited. I realized I had a lot to do.
My life is my life, and I'll live it.
I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them.
It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.'
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.
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.
When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it.
I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.
I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.
I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch.
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.
At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.'
I am a showoff, the third of three kids.
I love Jason Robert Brown.
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.
I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'
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.
I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.
I'm not much for formality.
There's no way you can deliver 'the greatest musical of the century.'
I'm pretty independent.
Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C.
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 was in 'Hair,' which didn't work in London, but it was a show we all believed in.
I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me.
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'
I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there.
It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.
I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.
Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings.
There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.
The older I've gotten, and the more that I've worked, I cherish that I'm an Ohio boy because, at the end of the day, I believe that I'm a talented person; I believe that I work really hard, but I think that the main reason I'm successful is because I'm kind, I'm easy to work with, and I'm a team player.
I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals.
I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.
I'm a huge 'South Park' fan, loved 'Avenue Q,' and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez, and Casey Nicholaw.
I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'
