The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.

Neil Patrick Harris

Work Time Art

I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

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Very Up UN

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

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T Restaurant Rest

Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love.

Neil Patrick Harris

Work Love Life

It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

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Trust You Wind

I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.

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Where Now Like

I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

Neil Patrick Harris

Life Wit Wildly

You just take things as they come.

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You Us Things

Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

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Vent Us Up

I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Neil Patrick Harris

Time Art You

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

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Work Years Year

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

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Time York Year

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

Neil Patrick Harris

Car UN Things

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

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Time Life Good

Whether it's a double take or a spit take or an extra-long pause before a reaction or a line, I try to be as cognizant as possible about the technical end of it. So I think the physical stuff works easier for me than maybe for others who are more just going on instinct.

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Work Works Who

In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.

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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

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Time Good You

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

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Work Great Wit

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

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You Way Us

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

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Teen Age Wise Man

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

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Your You Think

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

Neil Patrick Harris

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

Neil Patrick Harris

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Neil Patrick Harris

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Neil Patrick Harris

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

Neil Patrick Harris

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

Neil Patrick Harris

I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.

Neil Patrick Harris

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

Neil Patrick Harris

I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

Neil Patrick Harris

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

Neil Patrick Harris

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

Neil Patrick Harris

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

Neil Patrick Harris

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Neil Patrick Harris

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

Neil Patrick Harris

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Neil Patrick Harris

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

Neil Patrick Harris

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

Neil Patrick Harris

I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

Neil Patrick Harris

I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

Neil Patrick Harris

The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.

Neil Patrick Harris

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

Neil Patrick Harris

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

Neil Patrick Harris

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

Neil Patrick Harris

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Neil Patrick Harris

I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

Neil Patrick Harris

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

Neil Patrick Harris

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Neil Patrick Harris

I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

Neil Patrick Harris

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

Neil Patrick Harris

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

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