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Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, magician, and singer. He is known primarily for his comedy roles on television and his dramatic and musical stage roles. On television, he is known for playing the title character on Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993), Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014, for which he was nominated for four Emmy Awards), and Count Olaf on A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–).

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If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

Important, Maintain, Thinking, Tick, Tricks, Use

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

Art, Care, Impact, Theater, Writing

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

Age, Dance, Fun, Having, My Favorite, Time

I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

Cross, Crosses, Past, Roles, Taboo

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

Dance, Hours, Love, Thinking, Tvs

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

Dissecting, Fun, Games, Guy, Theory

I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.

Goes On, Jets, Miami, Private, Private Jet, Stay

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

Parent, Albuquerque, Restaurants, Parents, Restaurant

Babies laughing is like opium.

Baby, Laughing, Like, Opium

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.

Class, Club, Dancer, Should Have, Taken

I think flirting is great fun. It doesn't mean that anything's going to come of it but it's fun to be told that you're hot and that your tits look great. You all get your pens out.

Flirting, Fun, Hot, Mean

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.

Culture, Institutions, Irrelevance, Reality, Strange

I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem like you're as frenetic as possible, while replicating your movement so you're giving the editor more opportunity to cut within the different takes. If you're so crazy that you're sitting in one take and standing in another, the editor can only choose one take or the other. But if you can wrangle yourself into the same spot over and over, then you give them more choices for you.

Choices, Crazy, Cutting, Different, Movement, Opportunity

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Fans, Kid, Kids, Piece, Pieces, Wrote

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.

Cavett, Jobs, Johnny, Nice, Thinking, Wit

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, Politics, Think, Thinking, Volatile

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.

Greek, Play, Saying, Tragedy, Wisdom

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

Amaze, Discipline, Eight, Night, Perfect, Same

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.

Appeared, Magic, Magician, Musical, Probably

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

Ask, People, Populate, Thinking, World Love

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