Actor

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.

If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them.

I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

I smile a lot in my real life.

I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.

I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.

Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade.

When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour.

My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.

I loved 'Weekend,' and it meant a lot to me when I saw it in the movie theater. I think 'Looking' feels more like that movie than any of those other shows, with a little more comedy thrown in than 'Weekend.' But it's certainly got the vibe and look and feeling of that movie.

A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.