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"50 Neil Patrick Harris Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 15 June 1973 | Actor | Comedian | Magician |

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.

Because Deliver Felt Green
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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.

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.

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.

Animated Broadway Came Coming
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I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cause Chapter Different Get
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My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Always Beat Content Eye
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In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. 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.

Feel Going IFeel IFeelLike
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The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

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.

All-American Average Career Chunk
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I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.

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.

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.

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.

Being Gone Had IRemember
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What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
Changing 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.

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.

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.

Creativity Gay Get Going
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I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

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.

Awards Definitely Done Door
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I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.
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.

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.

Best Dance Hours ILove
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I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.
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.

Ages Dance Everyone Favorite
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Based Career Decisions Doing
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Neil Patrick Harris Quotes & Sayings