I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.
In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.
As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.
I was obsessed with Nintendo.
Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.
I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.
When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.
I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.
My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.
As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams.
I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.
If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.
It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original.
I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.
I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius.
The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.
Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO.
Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.
