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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.

Aaron Tveit

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
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
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 was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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High School Unsure Wanted
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
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’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
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
Rent’ was my first professional job, ever.
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Ever First Job Professional Rent
I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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Grew Middletown Mile New York Northwest
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
I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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Feel Lot Prove
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
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
I can clap with one hand.
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Clap Hand I One
I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
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Auditioning Hate Like Lot People
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 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 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
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
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
Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Cat Choose Interact Often Understanding
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 watch a lot of television. I always have.
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Always Lot Television 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
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
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

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