I feel like I've been dealing with that building over the years because of the Broadway community, so I'm treating it in the same way - I've always tried to keep my personal life private. I didn't get into this business for notoriety or fame. I don't go to places to be seen and that's not going to change.

Aaron Tveit

Categorized in : Years Community Broadway

What is wrong with you people?

Aaron Tveit

people

It's interesting, a lot of my friends and family thought that was the moment I kind of showed everyone my humor; the silly side of me that friends and family know, so that could be what people were responding to. I have a big sense of humor, and people who know me know that silly side of me, so moving forward, I think it gives me the freedom and confidence to do more of that.

Aaron Tveit

silly moving thinking

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Aaron Tveit

singers faces people

In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. I've had to do it before with stage roles, to get roles. I'm drawn to kind of darker, misfit things. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

Aaron Tveit

want play people

Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.

Aaron Tveit

energy feelings giving

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

Aaron Tveit

cat understanding

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Aaron Tveit

shut-up showers capacity

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

Aaron Tveit

middle awkward school

Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.

Aaron Tveit

nice ties people

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

Aaron Tveit

fashion rights moving

Basically, I didn't want to sing anything for the sake of singing it. There were some songs where I really wailed, but because it's such an intimate space anything I chose to sing simply to make sound was going to come off an inauthentic. So I was really happy with where it landed - every song I sang, I loved for one reason or another. I didn't have to worry about selling a song.

Aaron Tveit

space worry song

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

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ready share long

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Aaron Tveit

kind want world

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Aaron Tveit

hours-in-the-day passionate acting

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

Aaron Tveit

playing-someone actors choices

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

Aaron Tveit

singing voice hurt

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Aaron Tveit

high-school wanted school

I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

Aaron Tveit

watches kids

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

Aaron Tveit

actors dream television

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.

Aaron Tveit

awards should-have looks