ANDREW RANNELLS

I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

I can't wake up at all without caffeine.

When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.

Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

I love doing both theater and television.

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

In L.A., people will recognize me for doing 'Girls,' but have no idea that I have ever done anything on Broadway or can sing or dance or any of that stuff.

In 2011, I earned a Tony nomination for my role in 'The Book of Mormon.'

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 feel very fortunate that while I had a little bit of personal panic or maybe a little internal struggle as a teenager, really coming to terms with the fact that I was gay, and also knowing I was going to have to tell my family. And, how was that going to affect things? And would it affect things? And ultimately, it did not.

I would always pick pop songs and would sing them even if they were not correct for the audition - which didn't always get me a lot of jobs, but sometimes they did.