Quotes by John Lloyd Young - Page 1

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Audience
Play
Stage
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I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
I've Learned
Screens
Stage
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I was the first guest star asked to appear on 'Glee,' which we all know became huge.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Glee
Appear
Guest
Guest Star
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Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Artist
Brilliant
Life Me Something
Drawn
Instinctively
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I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Kids
Hollywood
Musical
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I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Actors
Dialect
Singing
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I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Giving
Mind
Singing
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But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Character
Insight
Scripts
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My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Disease
Natural
Toddler
Deal
Great Deal
Passed
Struggling
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During 'Jersey Boys,' I discovered one of the most rewarding ways to use your goodwill is to motivate fans and friends into lending support to charity.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Charity
Goodwill
Jersey
Lending
Discovered
Motivate
Rewarding
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I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Evoke
Imitation
Watches
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The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Embracing
Everyone Else
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It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Advice
Character
Creative
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When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Found Someone
Ideas
Marketing
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I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Cheerleader
Tough
Musicals
Require
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It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Keys
Roles
Skills
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I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Kids
Broadway
Teenager
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I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Bars
Turner
Annoy
Girlfriends
Joking
Shower
Tina
Tina Turner
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I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Men
Broadway
Generations
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I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Interesting
Mafia
Thinking
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I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Italian
Law
Thinking
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My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember her. I do remember, though, when it was just my father and me, before he met the woman who would become the mother who raised me, before my younger sister, Gillian. It was just the two of us, and he was my whole world.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Sister
Died
Raised
Younger Sister
World Me Remember
Younger
World Father Me
Met
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My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
New York
Romantic
Broadway
Broadway Shows
Chorus
Hooked
Impossible
Interest
Minutes
Seeing
Shows
Summer
Life Impossible Me
Life Romantic Me
Original
Dustin Hoffman
Production
Struggling
Tie
Trips
York
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I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I had sort of discovered it by accident as a child or a young adult when you realize you have a special skill that you don't really have any use for you, and you just take it out at parties or to amuse your friends or to annoy your girlfriends.
John Lloyd Young / Actor
Children
Girlfriend
Party
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