Andrew Rannells Quotes

#1. I love doing both theater and television.

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#2. 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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#3. I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

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

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

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

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

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

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#10. You should have hopes. Hopes to nourish the courage that helps get success in life.

Girdhar Joshi

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

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

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#13. Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

Alex Kozinski

#14. 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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#15. Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

C.S. Lewis

#16. Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#17. However, I have to warn you, I kind of like that you find me irresistible."
"Did I say that?" he asked, a slight tint creeping up his stubbled cheeks. "I didn't say that! I find you completely resistible.

Robyn Carr

#18. For a thousand years Europe had been trying to drive Mohammedanism out of the continent.

Mary Platt Parmele

#19. You can't just want to die.
You have to live it.

Jacob Scheier

#20. The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

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#22. My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.

Natalia Kills

#23. Peter, you're not crazy," William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.

Torey L. Hayden

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

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#26. you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or managers (call them what you like) simply don't make that much difference.

Simon Kuper

#27. 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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#28. I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!

Louise Hay

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

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#30. There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

Beth Gibbons

#31. 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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#32. You might wince at the fact that I put economics ahead of your family, your friends, and the rest of the world, but there's a reason. If you don't get your personal financial engine working right, you place a burden on everyone from your family to the country. Once

Scott Adams

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

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

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

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