Andrew Rannells quotes:
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Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.
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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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My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
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I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.
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I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop. Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
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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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I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.
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If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.
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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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I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.
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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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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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I'm 6'2 and not a small person.
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I can't wake up at all without caffeine.
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This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.
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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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I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
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As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college in New York and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.
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So much of being an actor is trying to force yourself into these roles and sometimes it's a good fit, and sometimes it's not a good fit. You have to get clear about what it is that you do and not try to be a bunch of other people. Not try to be that guy or try to play that part; find the roles that you do well.
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I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.
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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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I love doing both theater and television.
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I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.