Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.

Love is awesome and endless, but it is constantly changing its form. You love something for what it is, then it changes. But that change can make you love it even more.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

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.

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

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.

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

I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

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.

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.

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.

I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

May I suggest a drinking game where everytime I do a ridiculously long awkward blink, someone does a shot of some kind of alcohol?

This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

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.

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.

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

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.

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

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.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.

He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

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.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

On MTV, the dialogue can be a little darker, more interesting and edgy... the animation is just phenomenal. It's a CGI program that's doing all the animation.

Babies laughing is like opium.

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