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" It doesn't inspire young men and women struggling with their own sexuality to be confident in who they are if I'm not confident in who I am. "
Gavin Creel
Confident
Women
I Am
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" At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.' "
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" I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. "
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" I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance. "
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" My life is my life, and I'll live it. "
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" I want to know that I'm proud of what I'm doing. "
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" I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention. "
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" I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard. "
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" I love Jason Robert Brown. "
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" I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen. "
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" I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.' "
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" I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.' "
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" Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I got behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's going to do. The day he was elected president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world history - good and bad. "
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Time
World
Life
" There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it. "
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You
Performance
Fake
" We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period. "
Gavin Creel
Theatre
Change
Want
" When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified. "
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Broadway
Lead
First
" Sometimes when I do a musical, they'll be a scene that comes up, and I'm like, 'Oh, I hate this scene,' but you get through it. "
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You
Sometimes
Like
" I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there. "
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Routine
Me
Creating
" I'm not much for formality. "
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Much
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" I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place. "
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Love
Blue
Place
" My mom and dad have always, always, and continue to be the most incredible citizens of the world and most generous in quiet ways, that I strive to do even a fraction of what they do. "
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World
Mom
Quiet
" I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through. "
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Feel
Getting Better
Better
" The older I've gotten, and the more that I've worked, I cherish that I'm an Ohio boy because, at the end of the day, I believe that I'm a talented person; I believe that I work really hard, but I think that the main reason I'm successful is because I'm kind, I'm easy to work with, and I'm a team player. "
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Team
End
Day
" Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings. "
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I Am
" I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively. "
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Most
Been
Even
" Maybe some of the pronouns have changed, but I've always been honest in my music. "
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Honest
Music
Maybe
" I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions. "
Gavin Creel
Think
Thinking
Community
" I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.' "
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Become
Know
" To be an actor, it's really tough to find your own voice because you're always tied to other characters and going to auditions and trying to get a job, hoping they'll pick you. And I think it's just so important for an actor to have something else that's creative, something that's creative and you're in charge of. "
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Tough
Voice
You
" The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that? "
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Deep
Romantic
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" I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.' "
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