Aaron Tveit

“Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.”

“I watch a lot of television. I always have.”

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

“Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.”

“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”

“I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.”

“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”

“I can clap with one hand.”

“I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.”

“I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.”

“I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.”

“Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.”

“I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.”

“I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.”

“I just feel like I have a lot to prove.”

“People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.”

“Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.”

“I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.”

“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”

“I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.”