Top 30 Andrew Rannells Quotes

Everyone is different, and every relationship is different, and I think the rules can change, and feelings can change. It’s not only about who you’re with, but also where you are in your own life and your own process.

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.

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.

One of the great things about ‘Girls’ is that each of these characters really does represent a human being. There are definitely relatable aspects to all of these folks, and certainly within my close friend group, those personalities very much exist.

It never occurred to me that one could just buy tickets to the Tonys. I figured you had to be invited.

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

My group of friends, we sort of go at each other pretty hard sometimes. And it’s half performance, half truth that you can say cutting things to your friends that might be a little true, but as long as you package it in a joke, it becomes a little more palatable.

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

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

I’ve always been a huge fan of Tina Fey’s. She’s a very unique storyteller and has such a great voice and sense of character and comedy, and manages to do things that are oftentimes very broad but still have a lot of heart to them.

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.

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

When I came out when I was 18, and I graduated from high school, and I felt like that was the time to officially say it, I surprised zero people in my family.

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

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.

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

My career, definitely, the early years were a little scattershot, in terms of – it was a little regional theater, it was a lot of voiceovers, it was a lot of random day jobs. I mean, it was hard. It was hard to scrap around, and once ‘Hairspray’ happened, then it all kind of clicked into place.

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

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.

There are certainly actors who I felt rivalries with, but then, as time goes on, you realize that you have to keep your eyes on your own paper because everybody’s doing their own work.

I love doing both theater and television.

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

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

I’m always thrilled when I get feedback from young people, particularly from ‘The New Normal,’ young gay people – when they say they want that when they grow up, that means a lot to me.

I’m 6’2 and not a small person.

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

I arrived at New York, and I went from being Andy Rannells from Nebraska to being Andrew Rannells in New York who was gay. And those were just the facts.

I was a little boy who watched ‘Solid Gold’ every week and wanted to be a ‘Solid Gold’ dancer. And I would do very in-depth reenactments of ‘Grease 2’ and ‘West Side Story’ with my sister Natalie in our garage. I was a very theatrical kid.

Surround yourself with people who are going to support you regardless of what your sexual orientation is, and you can have a beautiful life filled with love.

I would like to tell stories through the lens of the gay person, but not just for gay people.