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Ethan Slater Quotes
Ethan Slater Quotes
Ethan Slater
American
Actor
Born:
Jun 2
,
1992
About
Broadway
Life
Me
School
You
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Yellow's never been a good color for me, but it's actually grown on me. I like it more than I used to!
Ethan Slater
Good
Me
More
Color
Never
Like
Been
Yellow
Than
Used
Grown
Actually
The process of finding my voice as SpongeBob was to start by watching what Tom Kenny did, trying to do an impression of sorts, and then forgetting all about it and letting the voice become a second-nature thing.
Ethan Slater
Become
Finding
About
Voice
Sort
Impression
Trying
Did
Forgetting
Process
Then
Tom
Letting
Thing
Start
Kenny
Watching
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.
Ethan Slater
Death
Change
Creative
People
Took
Minds
Broadway
Definitely
Kind
About
Something
Cast
Entity
Part
Most
Ready
Proud
Were
Been
Commercial
Being
Really
Team
Whole
Aware
Route
Thing
I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.
Ethan Slater
Love
Broadway
Broadway Musicals
Musicals
Lot
Want
I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.
Ethan Slater
You
Somebody
Whatever
Say
About
Could
Throws
Himself
Sort
Always
Passionate
Been
Who
Thing
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.
Ethan Slater
Walk
First
Starts
Take
Step
Like
First Step
Am
Stance
Show
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.
Ethan Slater
Good
Heart
Good Heart
Somebody
Hers
Meet
Everything
Out
Kind
Find
Couple
Massive
She
Does
Gotten
Waitress
Times
Heartwarming
Just
Fan
Then
Really
Her
Albums
I would say I'm the normal level of 'SpongeBob' fan, which is that it's been out since I was a kid, and it's part of the zeitgeist.
Ethan Slater
Say
Kid
Out
Would
Part
Since
Been
Normal
Fan
Which
Zeitgeist
Level
I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.
Ethan Slater
Chaplin
Charlie
Brothers
Charlie Chaplin
Marx
Always
Loved
I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.
Ethan Slater
Me
Father
Nervous
About
Pursuing
Know
Arts
Little
Career
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.
Ethan Slater
You
Practice
Collapse
Somehow
Wrestling
Through
Feel
Stereotypical
Like
Make
Sort
Doing
Yelling
End
Going
Coach
Keep
Keep Going
You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.
Ethan Slater
You
Nervous
Say
Critics
About
Always
Anybody
Really
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.
Ethan Slater
Music
Mother
First
Seven
Through
Piano
Had
House
She
How
Passed
Encountered
Sisters
Where
Teaching
Away
Play
Her
The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.
Ethan Slater
You
Somebody
Own
Else
See
Something
More
Make
Version
Your
Harder
The only reason to do a 'SpongeBob' on Broadway is if it's gonna bring something new to the brand, something new to 'SpongeBob,' and also something innovative to theater and to Broadway.
Ethan Slater
Innovative
Broadway
Something
Only
Something New
New
Also
Brand
Theater
Gonna
Reason
Bring
I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.
Ethan Slater
Sacrifices
Making
Working
Used
Working Hard
Hard
I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.
Ethan Slater
Think
Like
Optimistic
Imaginative
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.
Ethan Slater
Style
Stretching
Addition
One Of The Things
Silent
Physical
Classic
About
Animated
He
Comedians
Sort
Squeezing
Movement
Being
Really
Found
Based
Things
I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.
Ethan Slater
Able
Feel
Like
Because
Been
Personally
Grow
Playing
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.
Ethan Slater
Feeling
Drawing
Something
Part
Development
Missing
Knowing
Always
How
Fix
Person
Artist
Quite
Childhood
Childlike
Inherently
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.
Ethan Slater
Work
Best
Broadway
Broadway Shows
Possibly
Best Work
Something
Feel
Like
Audience
Doing
Craft
Artists
Height
Really
Working
Special
Shows
Presence
We're all sort of aware what 'SpongeBob the Musical' could be in the hands of the wrong people.
Ethan Slater
People
Musical
Could
Wrong
Sort
Hands
Aware
Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.
Ethan Slater
Age
People
Matter
About
Something
Freeing
Identify
Him
Playing
We all should be so lucky to be as optimistic as SpongeBob.
Ethan Slater
Optimistic
Should
Lucky
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