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. – Neil Patrick Harris
We’re blessed on ‘How I Met Your Mother’ to feel like we’re doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday. – Neil Patrick Harris
I’m a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, ’cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets. – Neil Patrick Harris
I 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. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there. – Neil Patrick Harris
I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I’m a huge Cirque du Soleil nut. – Neil Patrick Harris
The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they’ve hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer’s there and he knows exactly how it’s supposed to be said. So you can’t really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it. – Neil Patrick Harris
My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it’s all ages and everyone seems to be having fun. – Neil Patrick Harris
The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined – especially if you’re doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That’s exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
I enjoy being a hyphenate. I’ve always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus. – Neil Patrick Harris
I always thought I’d make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too. – Neil Patrick Harris
I’m in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
It’s like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you’re at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn’t free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit. – Neil Patrick Harris
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me. – Neil Patrick Harris
With the Tonys it’s a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
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. – Neil Patrick Harris
I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting. – Neil Patrick Harris
