Andrew Rannells Quotes

#1. My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.

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#2. Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

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#3. I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.

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#4. As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

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#5. I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

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#6. The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can.

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#7. I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

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#8. This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.

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#9. I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

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#10. If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

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#11. As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.

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#12. I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

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#13. I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

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#14. At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

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#15. Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.

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#16. Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

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#17. I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

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#18. I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

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#19. I love doing both theater and television.

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#20. I can't wake up at all without caffeine.

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#21. I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

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#22. When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.

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