Gavin Creel

To be an actor, it's really tough to find your own voice because you're always tied to other characters and going to auditions and trying to get a job, hoping they'll pick you. And I think it's just so important for an actor to have something else that's creative, something that's creative and you're in charge of. ”

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that? ”

I am not a sex symbol of the Broadway community. I know guys who are, and I say, 'Rock it out.' But I'm more comfortable in a different land. I don't know what land it is, but not that one. ”

The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle. ”

I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions. ”

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period. ”

I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change. ”

I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them. ”

I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there. ”

I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance. ”