Gavin Creel Quotes

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

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

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.

I can’t live without my music player.

I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.

I have never really referred to my voice as ‘gay.’

I’m not much for formality.

It’s exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.

I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.

I’m sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.

After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.

One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn’t because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn’t believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world.

I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There’s something about Michigan. Maybe it’s that we’re less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don’t know, but it’s a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It’s just a magic place.

I love Kim Kardashian. There, I’ve said it.

I looked at ‘Us Weekly‘ and said, ‘I want to be famous.’

I think ‘Hair‘ is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience – it needs to be seen and heard.

The older I’ve gotten, and the more that I’ve worked, I cherish that I’m an Ohio boy because, at the end of the day, I believe that I’m a talented person; I believe that I work really hard, but I think that the main reason I’m successful is because I’m kind, I’m easy to work with, and I’m a team player.

I have a Bachelor‘s of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.

I am a showoff, the third of three kids.

I still don’t go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I’m not not going because I’m afraid, but rather I’m not going now because I don’t want to get off the couch.

I feel like we’re constantly getting better musically, and more of what’s in my heart and head is coming through.

I’m pretty independent.

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.

There’s no way you can deliver ‘the greatest musical of the century.’

Maybe some of the pronouns have changed, but I’ve always been honest in my music.

I was never late to a show more often than ‘La Cage.’ Because I lived close, and I didn’t really do anything in that show.

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

I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively.