Andrew Rannells Quotations

I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

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

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

I love doing both theater and television.

I can't wake up at all without caffeine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop. Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

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

I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.

So much of being an actor is trying to force yourself into these roles and sometimes it's a good fit, and sometimes it's not a good fit. You have to get clear about what it is that you do and not try to be a bunch of other people. Not try to be that guy or try to play that part; find the roles that you do well.

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

When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.

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

As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college in New York and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.

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

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

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

The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

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

This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.