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This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.

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Andrew Rannells
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Actor
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Omaha
Nebraska
Andrew Scott Rannells
Gay
Musical
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.
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Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.
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I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.
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Girls was the first television show I got to be a part of, and that was here in New York. Getting to work with Lena Dunham, and to work with HBO and Judd Apatow, and then being a big fan of Ryan Murphy, I couldn't have asked for a better opportunity than this.
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I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.
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I can't wake up at all without caffeine.
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I think Girls is so great, because versions of it are close to my own experience of moving to New York. It's a fun. You know - get to be messy and silly and irresponsible, but also wrap that up at the end of the day and be an adult. It's a fun time, but not necessarily one you want to stay in for too long.
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My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?
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If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.
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When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
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The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can.
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I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
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I'm 6'2 and not a small person.
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My mother was predominately a stay-at-home Mom.
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I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.
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As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.
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At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
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I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.
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I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of The Book of Mormon . And Girls felt very much the same way - there was an excitement about it as we were doing it I knew it was something special.
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I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.
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