Top 55 Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

I’m a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I’m proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

A cardio-funk class – I should have at least taken one of those. But it’s always terrified me. I’m never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

I’m lucky that people believe me when I’m in character.

I’m a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare’s prose.

You just take things as they come.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that – it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

I’ve done plenty of daredeviling – from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

It’s nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I’m incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I’m sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

I’ve been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

I’m a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, ’cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you’ve got cushioned seats.

Tobey’s a mellow, cool guy. He’s just a good guy. I know that’s not the answer you want, and I don’t mean that as the political thing to say, but he’s a nice guy.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it’s all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

I’ve been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I’m working on my double back flip right now.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Mmmmmmmm. Anderson. He’s dreamy. Just dreamy. I’ve been a fan of his since season 1 of ‘The Mole.’ I just thought he was so cool when he talked in this cool, low, secret-agent voice.

I always thought I’d make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn’t be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there’s a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn’t really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they’ve hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer’s there and he knows exactly how it’s supposed to be said. So you can’t really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.

It’s good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you’re offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

It’s like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you’re at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn’t free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

I’m probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I’m able.

I love the ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ show. I love it. I think it’s some of the best hours on TV.

With the Tonys it’s a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.

I’m shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it’s probably good – I get to go home and sleep.

If you don’t have any ties to the music industry, you just love ‘American Idol,’ you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

I’m not trying to climb a ladder – I’m casting a bit of a net.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they’ve never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they’re afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

I don’t know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.

I like to make decisions based on things I’m interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

I’ve gotten to hang out with Elmo, I’m the Fairy Shoeperson on ‘Sesame Street’. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they’re able.

I’m in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Whether it’s a double take or a spit take or an extra-long pause before a reaction or a line, I try to be as cognizant as possible about the technical end of it. So I think the physical stuff works easier for me than maybe for others who are more just going on instinct.

I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick… Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it’s fun to have some complications there.

‘Smurfs’ just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I’d never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I’m a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I’m a nerdy, geeky fan of’ Labyrinth’ and ‘Dark Crystal’.

I’ve got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.