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I didn’t grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Aaron Tveit

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you’re playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
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Actor Choice Doing Playing Positive Someone
Coming from a background of being onstage, you’re onstage for two and a half hours and you’re in it for the whole time no matter what you’re doing. Even if you don’t have a line, you have to stay in it.
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Background Coming Half Line Onstage Time Two Whole
Singing for stage, if you don’t hear yourself, that’s when you push, and that’s when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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Balance Hear Hurt Push Singing Stage Voice
I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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Grew Middletown Mile New York Northwest
In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all
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Back Film Forth Ideal Kind Theatre Want World
I feel like I’ve been dealing with that building over the years because of the Broadway community, so I’m treating it in the same way – I’ve always tried to keep my personal life private. I didn’t get into this business for notoriety or fame. I don’t go to places to be seen and that’s not going to change.
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Broadway Building Community Dealing Treating Year
Life doesn’t move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.
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Back Double Fashion Life Linear Moving Right
I can clap with one hand.
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Clap Hand I One
People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
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Face Just More People Pretty Saw Sing Singer
I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I’d watch them over and over.
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Kid Many Movie Over Watch
It’s every actor’s dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
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Actor Broadway Dream Shoot Show Television
After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
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College Exponentially Group People Received Require
What is wrong with you people?
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Ask People Wrong
I’m at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I’m comfortable with the person that I am.
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Am Comfortable Feel Finally Life Person Place Who
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I’ve been so fortunate and I’ve gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, ‘Oh, I should have gotten that prize.’ I’ve been so blessed, it’s hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.
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Award Fortunate Have Look Measure Should Terrific Work
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!
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Awkward Especially Late Middle School Schooler Swoop

I didn’t grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

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I didn’t grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

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