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One of the things I've found about SpongeBob's movement style is that, in addition to being animated and sort of stretching and squeezing, he's really based on the classic silent comedians, physical comedians.

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Silent, Based, Squeezing, Animated

I've gotten to meet Sara Bareilles a couple of times. I'm just a such a massive fan of hers, from her albums to 'Waitress' to everything that she does. To be a fan of somebody and then find out that they have a good heart and are kind is really heartwarming.

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Couple, Albums, Gotten, Good Heart

I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.

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Loved, Always, Brothers, Chaplin

I start with a pretty yoga-based warm-up. I do jumping jacks and burpees, and I do a lot of dynamic stretching.

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Pretty, Jumping, Lot, Warm-Up

I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of my life and all my friends' lives and defined our humor, in a way.

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My Life, Been, Turned, Defined

When I'm in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I'm in the presence of something really special with artists working at the height of their craft and doing the best work that they possibly can.

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Doing, Craft, Broadway, Possibly

SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he's a little naive, maybe, but he's so optimistic and is able to put his love of his friends and family above everything else.

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Love, Maybe, Sure, Everything Else

I was a wrestler in high school, and that was a pretty big part of my life.

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My Life, Big, Big Part, Wrestler

I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

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Working, Making, Sacrifices, Working Hard

In the room, when I'm playing SpongeBob, I'm optimistic and I'm happy, and I smile in the face of those who are upset in order to make them happier. You know, there's this overwhelming optimism. And I've been lucky enough to have that become a part of my life. I like to think that it's influenced me.

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My Life, Lucky, Upset, Overwhelming

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

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Think, I Think, Than, Naive

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.

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Pretty, Come, Social, Element

The whole cast and creative team were definitely aware of the 'This is the death of Broadway!' kind of thing about 'SpongeBob,' but we've been really ready to change people's minds. I'm really proud of being part of something that took the most creative route to a commercial entity.

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Death, Commercial, Been, Entity

One of my favorite pieces of fan mail was a gift that I got. It was a jar filled with handwritten nice thoughts.

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Gift, Thoughts, Mail, Jar

In my senior year of high school, I was doing a dance with a bunch of friends for the talent show, and my pants split entirely in half. It was incredible.

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Doing, Pants, Half, Entirely

I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.

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Love, Lot, I Love, Musicals

It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.

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Development, Artist, Always, Missing

The magnitude of being able to make my Broadway debut as SpongeBob in 'SpongeBob SquarePants' really only started to hit me when we took it out of town.

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Broadway, Town, Took, Magnitude

I look a lot like my mom. I'm the only one of my siblings with red hair, and she had bright red hair. I always have felt incredibly connected to her.

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Bright, Always, Like, Sibling

To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.

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Surprise, Broadway, Debut, To Be Honest

SpongeBob's voice is really pingy and forward and nasally. The problem is, if you live in the extreme of that for more than 10 minutes, it can be a little grating, and it can be hard on your voice. Also, it gets in the way of the acting to be forcing your voice into this place.

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Voice, Problem, Your, Extreme

The sort of stereotypical wrestling practice is that you're doing burpees, and the coach is yelling at you to keep going, and you feel like you're going to collapse, but you somehow make it through to the end.

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Practice, Doing, Through, Stereotypical

My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play. That was where I first encountered music, through her.

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Play, Through, Away, Encountered

Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.

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About, Playing, Identify, Freeing

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

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See, More, Else, Version

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

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Making, Broadway, Itself, Debut

I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.

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Think, Like, Optimistic, Imaginative

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

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Passionate, Always, Been, Throws

Wrestling is a small, intimate sport.

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Small, Intimate, Sport, Wrestling

When the show starts, I am in my SpongeBob stance, and I walk like SpongeBob, and the first step that I take, I am SpongeBob.

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Like, Show, Am, Stance

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