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50 Neil Patrick Harris Quotes & Sayings
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50 Neil Patrick Harris Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 15 June 1973 |
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Comedian
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Magician
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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.
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Because
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I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.
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Artistic
Big
Big Impact
Control
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.
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Fun
Games
Guy
I Love
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I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.
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Animated
Broadway
Came
Coming
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Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Dancer
Got
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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
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About
Although
Appeared
Magic
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
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Assassins
Climate
Due
I Can
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Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.
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Answer
Cool
CoolGuy
Good
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When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.
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Else
Episodes
Going
Good
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I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.
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Big
BigFan
Buster
Fan
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don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.
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Audience
Hear
Know
Listening
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.
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Able
Also
Been
Come
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Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.
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Big
BigBudget
Blue
Budget
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I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.
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Cause
Chapter
Different
Get
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My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.
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Own
Parents
Restaurant
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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.
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Able
Any
Biggest
Critic
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As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
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Actor
Anything
Average
Exciting
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I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.
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Assistant
Game
Like
Scheduling
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I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.
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Actor
Any
Case
Choose
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Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
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Ever
Fan
FanMail
Jim
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I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.
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Able
Any
Collect
Creatively
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I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.
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Always
Beat
Content
Eye
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In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
Ate
Burger
Mostly
Occasional
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I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.
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Feel
Going
IFeel
IFeelLike
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The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.
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Demographics
Different
Many
Now
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.
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All-American
Average
Career
Chunk
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I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.
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Crystal
Dark
Fan
Geeky
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I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.
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Able
Fairy
Get
Gotten
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I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.
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Another
Beverly
Books
Demographic
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I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.
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Being
Gone
Had
IRemember
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Constantly
Defines
Involved
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I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.
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Always
Being
Career
Circus
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A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.
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Always
Bar
Class
Club
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There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
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Creativity
Gay
Get
Going
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I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.
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Best
Cruise
Guy
Karaoke
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I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.
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Awards
Definitely
Done
Door
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IThink
Just
Kids
Know
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We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.
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Bit
Blessed
Doing
Everyday
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I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.
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Best
Dance
Hours
ILove
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Dance
Destroys
IThink
Impressive
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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.
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Ages
Dance
Everyone
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I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.
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Forehead
Going
Large
Lot
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I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.
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Acting
Head
Heart
IThink
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Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.
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Again
Back
BackToSchool
Day
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I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.
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Carving
Children
Chunks
Go
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I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.
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Agenda
Camera
Down
Example
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Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.
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After
Doctor
Find
He
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What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done.
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About
Anyone
Done
Enjoy
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I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.
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Awards
Big
BigFan
Blend
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I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.
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Career
Decisions
Doing
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Neil Patrick Harris Quotes & Sayings