“I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies”

When I put something into motion

And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss

Most of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy’s going to hang out on the top of the Burj

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.

I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.

I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.

It’s been exhausting. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done because it’s just so big, and I haven’t had a lot of time.

If you can reincarnate, what do you wanna be in your next life? I think I want to become a rock.

I’ve never had formal drama-school training; I’ve just picked things up as I’ve gone along.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story.

It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama.

I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.

I’m not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety.

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

In middle school, I really didn’t have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.