Top 100 Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.
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#5. I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
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#6. I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.
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#9. 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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#10. I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.
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#11. 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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#12. When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.
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#14. I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.
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#15. I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.
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#16. I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.
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#17. 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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#18. 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.
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#19. I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.
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#24. A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.
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#25. Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.
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#26. 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.
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#27. I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.
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#30. 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.
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#31. On MTV, the dialogue can be a little darker, more interesting and edgy ... the animation is just phenomenal. It's a CGI program that's doing all the animation.
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#32. Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry ... brightest.
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#33. Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.
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#34. 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.
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#35. I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.
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#36. I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like to have control over what the characters do. I think as an actor, you get a little too caught up in the moment-to-moment, beat-to-beat stuff to have perspective.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Squee." 1 (verb): To emit an onomatopoetic girlish swooning sound out of pure fanboy adulation. 2 (noun): the sound itself.
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#40. Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
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#41. I'm having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure.
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#42. I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.
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#43. Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.
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#44. I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.
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#45. I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.
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#47. 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.
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#49. Think of me like Yoda, but instead of being little and green I wear suits.
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#50. I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.
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#52. I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.
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#53. I think flirting is great fun. It doesn't mean that anything's going to come of it but it's fun to be told that you're hot and that your tits look great. You all get your pens out.
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#54. 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.
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#55. [Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.
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#57. My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.
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#58. I don't want to have to inadvertently find a gift and go like, "What the hell is - - oh no, that's for me." And then have to pretend like I'm surprised later. I won't look. If I know where they're hidden, I will not look. I love presents and I hate faking surprises.
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#59. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.
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#62. 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.
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#66. I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.
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#67. I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so ... subjective!
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#68. I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.
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#69. What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
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#70. What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Babies just change everything. You have to become super selfless and super tired and super amenable to change. They just change all the time.
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#76. I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.
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#77. I would not dream of taking on Tobey Maguire. Plus, he's a talented and nice guy, and I have nothing but nice things to say about him.
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#78. With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.
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#80. Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.
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#81. We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.
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#84. Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
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#85. 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.
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#86. 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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#87. 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.
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#88. There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
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#89. I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.
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#90. I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.
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#91. I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.
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#92. I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.
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#94. I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.
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#96. I feel like with actors wanting to direct, you really only have a shot or two. You can't just make a bunch of little independent movies, and then finally one gets noticed. You have to make a really good one right away.
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#97. 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.
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#98. 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.
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#99. The tots both started laughing. On the same day. I'm now obsessed with getting them to do it. Babies laughing is like opium.
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#100. i have to go" "I love you"
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