Jonathan Groff Quotes

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,' so I was lucky to be there.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition, and I got the job.

There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.