Jonathan Groff Quotes

#1. Early in my career ... I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility ... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#2. The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment ... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#3. I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

Jonathan Groff

#4. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

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#5. At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

Jonathan Groff

#6. I'm kind of whatever about nudity. Hopefully I wouldn't be a part of anything, whether I'm naked or not, that I didn't believe in. But I'm pretty comfortable being naked.

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#7. Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.

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#8. I didn't wait for him to stretch out his hand before I went to him. And looking up into his face I said, "I want to paint you." He gently lifted me into his arms. "Nude would be best," he said in my ear.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it's over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.

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#10. But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.

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#11. We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

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#12. I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

Iris Apfel

#13. All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.

Gregg Braden

#14. When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.

Gwen Moore

#15. No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

Silvan Shalom

#16. Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

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#17. I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

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#18. In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.

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#19. In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience

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#20. We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#21. Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

Jonathan Groff

#22. If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back.

Jonathan Groff

#23. Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

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