Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able to share and create so much art with a group of people I would have never imagined sharing and creating with. It's a true testament to the power of theater. There are no walls.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.'

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I read 'Huffington Post' as if I am a shareholder.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I'd put together, and I'd love for it to be nonverbal so it's something that someone with any communication ability can enjoy.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

Haiti is a proud nation, rich in heritage and spirituality. How they have been able to not only survive but thrive is a testament to how the Haitian people have come together to rebuild, create new families, and care for one another.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

I love Disney.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

Every decision you make has a consequence.

Michael Arden
Michael Arden

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.