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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.

Aaron Tveit

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
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 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
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
What is wrong with you people?
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Ask People Wrong
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
I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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Always Lot Television Watch
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’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
I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
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Auditioning Hate Like Lot People
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
I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you’re playing a car salesman, you don’t want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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Acting Car Once Play Salesman Teacher
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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Camp Direction Doing Growing Kid Luckily Sport Theatre Up
Things don’t always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it’s complicated.
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Complicated Make Nice People Relationship Stride Tie
Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren’t enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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Acting Almost Day Hour Passionate Stuff
Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.
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Chemistry Doe Forget People Sometimes Time
Rent’ was my first professional job, ever.
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Ever First Job Professional Rent
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
I still sing every day – in the shower or on the set all day. I’m sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it’s not in the capacity that I would like to.
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Capacity Every Day Shower Shut Up Sing Tell
I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I’m intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
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Deal Intrigued People Play Project Stuff Time Whole
I listen to all kinds of music, but I’ve always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I’m in my car, that’s what I listen to.
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Always Big Car Fan Listen Music Radio
I’m ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I’ll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.
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Hopefully Long Meeting Open Place Ready Share
I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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Feel Lot Prove
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
Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It’s such an output and exchange of energy. You can’t do that anywhere else.
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Audience Duplicate Energy Everyone Feeling Giving Onstage
I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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High School Unsure Wanted

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