Jonathan Groff Quotes

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

I did my first play around four or five. I can't remember the first one, but I did 'Annie' when I was five.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future.

I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

I started auditioning, and the first job I ever got was understudying Amy Ryan in 'The Sisters Rosensweig' on Broadway, directed by Daniel Sullivan. I was 18 years old.

My two boys have each done a play. They've done school plays as well, but one of them did a local production of 'Waiting For Godot,' and he played the boy.

There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.

I would love to do a non-musical Broadway or Off-Broadway play.

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

I always wanted to be an actress. I think that is something that I could be pretty good at.

Everyone at drama school called me Musical Boy.