Quotes by Rory O'malley - Page 1

The 'Cheers' family seemed like my family.
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Cheers
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You need to be happy with or without an acting job.
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Be Happy
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Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are such legends.
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Legends
Lawrence
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You can't waste time in your life trying to hide the truth.
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Waste
Life Truth Time
Hide
Waste Time
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We cannot give up on working toward that more perfect union.
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We Cannot
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As a kid, I had nightmares about Freddy Krueger just from the trailers on TV!
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Trailers
Freddy
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I can't believe women walk around in stilettos. I would not make it two steps.
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Steps
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There are a lot of other work forces that don't do things the way the Broadway community does.
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Broadway
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I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!
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Abbey
Time Good Thinking
Twice
Downton Abbey
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I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.
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Joseph
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To watch Lin Manuel Miranda... you could not make a better spokesperson for Broadway in a laboratory.
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Broadway
Laboratory
Spokesperson
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It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.
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Onstage
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Mom was a single mother. So three aunts and three uncles and all of mom's friends pitched in as weekend warriors.
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Uncles
Single Mother
Aunts
Warriors
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Elder McKinley wants his homosexuality to be turned off. To be a perfect Mormon, he has to put his feelings away.
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Homosexuality
Elder
Mormon
Turned
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Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'
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Abuse
Bars
Child Abuse
Growing Up
Sound
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As someone who was once in the closet, I can tell you it is the most sad, dark, awful, depressing place to ever be.
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Depressing
Closet
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Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.
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Pubs
Life Today I Am
Huge Part
Pub
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I loved 'Les Miz' and 'Into the Woods' - I used to cast 'Into the Woods' with my friends, even if they'd never stepped on stage before.
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Woods
Les
Stepped
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The only way to get to that next peak is to be ready for that next valley. Being raised Irish, you know to always be ready for the bad times.
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Bad Times
Peak
Valley
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I'm an actor first and foremost. But I've also started an organization, Broadway Impact, that advocates for marriage equality. I'm an actorvist.
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Broadway
Marriage Equality
Advocate
Foremost
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When I came out, I thought coming out meant giving up a marriage and a family. That was, to me, the most difficult part of the coming-out process.
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Giving Up
Family Marriage Me
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Irish music in the local pubs was my first exposure to musical expression, and I feel like Irish music is very close to musical theater because it is always telling a story.
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Exposure
Musical Theater
Pubs
Music Always Feel
Music Feel Always
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I love how passionate Elder McKinley is about his faith, but he's a perfectionist in a bad way... to the point he denies his true feelings. It's a common story, unfortunately.
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Bad Way
Denies
Elder
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Every actor who's been around long enough knows that when something bad happens in this business, it's always for a reason. Really, the hardest part is waiting to find out what the reason is.
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Hardest Part
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It's profound to watch a little African-American girl light up when she raps as George Washington and she realizes that Washington's story is her story. That this history belongs to all of us.
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African American
Profound
Belongs
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I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.
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Mcdonald
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'Hamilton' is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It's moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it's pretty hard to oversell it.
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Musical Theater
Art Form
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There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.
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Something Else
Stimulated
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I always thought I would move to New York after graduation, but, instead, I moved to Los Angeles. I realized I was more scared of that choice than I was of New York, and I thought, at 22, I should get it over with.
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Graduation
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I obsessively listened to all of James Lapine's shows as a child growing up in Cleveland and had every cast recording and every VHS tape of 'Into the Woods' and everything that James had done that I could get my hands on.
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Cleveland
Tape
Woods
James
Listened
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Being a kid and growing up in Cleveland, the Tonys were how you saw Broadway shows: you got to hear from each show, and that's what inspired me to live my dream, so the fact that I am getting recognition from them, it's mind-blowing.
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Broadway
Broadway Shows
Cleveland
Mind Blowing
Recognition
Me I Am Live
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My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate.
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Caught
Famine
Fire
Folks
Sibling
Single
Single Mother
Six
Family Mom Good
Arrived
Descended
Family Good Mom
Estate
Irish
Picking
Real Estate
River
Settled
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The key to doing eight shows a week is maintaining your energy. Getting as much sleep as possible and a big, healthy breakfast is the best way to make that happen. My mainstay is granola cereal, a banana, and soy milk. I also try to add a side of fresh fruit with yogurt and peanut butter toast.
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Add
Best Way
Breakfast
Cereal
Maintaining
Milk
Peanut Butter
Soy
Yogurt
Banana
Butter
Peanut
Toast
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After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.
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Dues
Grove
Hotel
Monica
Santa
Santa Monica
Fired
Garry
Graduated
Lake
Marshall
Overnight
Shift
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I played Sky Masterson in 'Guys and Dolls' at St. Ignatius. I walked out onstage at one point looking for Nathan Detroit, and I'm supposed to say, 'Has anyone seen Nathan Detroit?' But, instead, I said, 'Has anyone seen Sky Masterson?' I immediately realized what I'd done, so I said, 'Wait a minute. I'm Sky Masterson!'
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Detroit
Dolls
Sky
Onstage
Walked
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It's about being open to what comes your way. I came to New York and saw 'Spelling Bee.' I said to myself, 'That's the greatest show ever, and I can't believe I'm not a part of it.' I felt the only way I'm going to get to be a part of something that good is to live in New York. So I moved to New York and ended up in 'Spelling Bee.'
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Spelling
Good Myself Believe
Bee
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I spent a lot of my time, growing up, at the Beck Center. I'd be in plays there, and I'd get there an hour or two early just so I could be there, where I felt safe and where I belonged. And that's such an important feeling to have as a young kid. The theater community, and especially the Beck Center, really embraced me and got me started.
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Time Community Me
Beck
Belonged
Embraced
Young Kid
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