Quotes

People Magazine, November 3, 2006: "Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love."

I heard through the grapevine that they'd written this movie and that I was in it, and that I had to call my attorneys and make it stop -- that it was a bad thing, and I read it and thought it was hilarious. A friend was auditioning for a different part in the movie and said, 'do you know about this movie that you're in?' - on playing "Neil Patrick Harris" in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004).

Comedy is way more difficult than drama. What I might find funny, the editor might not find funny. They might choose the reaction shot from Take 4 with my line from Take 1 with my next line from Take 7, and then the timing that I was trying to do does not come across.

She's like the coolest, nicest chick ever. She's an absolute catch, and I thought if I'm not going to feel the super sparks with her, then it probably means that I'm gay. [Speaking to Howard Stern about having dated actress Christine Taylor in his early 20s].

I'm not the biggest fan of the word 'partner'. It either means that we run a business together or we're cowboys. 'Boyfriend' seems fleeting, like maybe we met two weeks ago. I've been saying 'better half' for as long as I've been able to. I think it's a little self-deprecating and clearly defines that we're in a relationship, but it would be nice to say 'my husband'.

[on the Tony Awards] We like to call it 50 Shades of Gay.

I have always been a fan of that immersive theatre idea that there is some kind of puzzle unfolding, and that things are happening around you without you knowing it.

[on David Fincher] He's been one of my favorite directors since 'The Game', starring Michael Douglas. He directs as if he is an artist painting pictures, so he tends to create a quiet, unsettling dynamic through the use of symmetry and asymmetry. And when you look at the paintings he's created, you feel something is a bit amiss, and there's a yearning for something - something that isn't there... I think he picks his projects really carefully, based on the knowledge that he will make them better. He knows what's in his wheelhouse.

I think kids are fascinated by the morbid. I know my kids are. Harper, our daughter, likes us to tell her scary stories. I'm thinking now back to 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'. Kids are told a lot about how to behave well, so I think creatively, it's fun to indulge in the sinister.

There's a kid in the middle of nowhere who's sitting there living for Tony performances. Singing and flipping along with the Pippins, and Wickeds, and Kinkys, Matildas, and Mormons's. So we might reassure that kid, and do something to spur that kid, 'cause I promise you, all of us up here tonight, we were that kid.

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

Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

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.

For me, magic can be a story, a game, a puzzle, or a surprise that takes my breath away in a single, furious gulp.

He wanted a home. He wanted a family. He wanted to have friends. But none of those things were realistic. At least not until he came to Mineral Wells. Right now Carter was just trying to hold on to the happiness he'd found since meeting Mr. Vernon the previous night. "To belong, okay??" Carter snapped. He felt tears in his eyes, but he wasn't sure. Quickly, he wiped at them. "You don't know what it's like to be alone.

It was so shiny

Think of me like Yoda, but instead of being little and green I wear suits.

For others, magic is a crisp autumn's day or a tender hug from a loved one.

When she is three, you catch her singing Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball," a song nobody should sing until they're at least dead. [from his book - Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography]

The tots both started laughing. On the same day. I'm now obsessed with getting them to do it. Babies laughing is like opium.

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

So pluck up your courage and take that risk! Add another story to the book of your life. Even if it doesn't go the way you planned or wanted, you'll still learn from it. Adventure

Some would say you were in a closet. Some would say you didn't even know you were in a house. The "truth" about a person's sexual preference is often revealed through a long journey of tiny steps, and acceptance is one of the last ones. It's an individual story for every person. There are unique personal prejudices in everyone, created by our families, our social circles, and mostly by ourselves. It's tough to confront those things that you are afraid of in yourself.

Not really. You're prepubescent, so no bush.

You come in weighing a very average, very sexy seven pounds, seven ounces. As it happens, that is also the exact weight of an Emmy Award. Coincidence? Yes ... but true fact? No.

comin' straight outta Brentwood, a cadre of young stars who've grown up deprived of deprivation trying to transform themselves into street toughs by forming ""gangs"" so devoid of street cred it's necessary to put the word in two sets of quotes. What kind of criminal activity are they engaged in? Script laundering? Agent smuggling? Film miscasting? Who knows. They think they have a posse when what they really have is a pose.