Rannells Quotes

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

Andrew Rannells

#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.

Andrew Rannells

#3. A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.

Isaac Asimov

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

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

#6. 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.

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

#9. If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

Nhat Hanh

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

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

#12. I love doing both theater and television.

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

#15. This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#16. Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

C. D. Broad

#17. 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.

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

#19. 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.

Andrew Rannells

#20. The sound of the blues, rhythm and blues, country music, is what we lived for, black and white alike. It gave you strength to sit on one of those throbbing Allis-Chalmers tractors all day if you knew you were gonna hear something on the radio or maybe see a show that evening.

Levon Helm

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

Andrew Rannells

#22. I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!'

Ronda Rousey

#23. Kayla snatched the ruby-coloured bra he'd dug out from behind his back. "You should know, you're the one who got it off me," she said.

Meg Cabot

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

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

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

Andrew Rannells

#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.

Andrew Rannells

#28. There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.

Howard Stern

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

Andrew Rannells

#30. 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.

Andrew Rannells

#31. I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.

Dan Bucatinsky

#32. We found our own synchronicity together, his heart thumping out a slow. steady beat and mine filling in the spaces between

Jessi Kirby

#33. Fill what is empty; empty what is full

Davidji