Words matter. These are the best Gavin Creel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I’m tired of all the angry stuff out there.
When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it.
My life is my life, and I’ll live it.
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.
It’s exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.
I looked at ‘Us Weekly’ and said, ‘I want to be famous.’
Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for ’30 Rock,’ but it’s always funny because you’re in this almost two-dimensional world where there’s Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That’s the framework.
I have to be able to have music at all times – to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.
I love Jason Robert Brown.
I’m not much for formality.
There’s no way you can deliver ‘the greatest musical of the century.’
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?
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.
The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she’s just gonna say, ‘Whatever, kid!’ and leave you in the dust.
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, ‘Okay, maybe you do have talent.’
After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.
I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively.
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.
Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven’t always treated it with the same reverence as it’s treated me.
Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C.
I don’t like to hold too much formality in concerts. It’s not that I don’t like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I’m more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you’re watching them.
I’ve always had a plan for my music career.
I have a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.
There’s something about a live theater performance: You can’t fake it.
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.
I think ‘Hair’ is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience – it needs to be seen and heard.
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.
I’m pretty independent.
I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it’s great, there’s nothing better, and when it’s bad, there’s nothing worse.
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.
The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.
Some scenes are just more people’s thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make of it. If I want her loud and lively, she’s there. If I want sunsets and starlight, Battery Park, here I come.
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.
I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.
I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.
I love Kim Kardashian. There, I’ve said it.
I feel like we’re constantly getting better musically, and more of what’s in my heart and head is coming through.
I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.
I still don’t go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I’m not not going because I’m afraid, but rather I’m not going now because I don’t want to get off the couch.
I was never late to a show more often than ‘La Cage.’ Because I lived close, and I didn’t really do anything in that show.
I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals.
One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn’t because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn’t believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world.
Maybe some of the pronouns have changed, but I’ve always been honest in my music.
I’ve always been a believer in the power of art – and music in particular – to inspire change.