EPISODE 32: MICHAEL URIE
MICHAEL URIE
On self worth, hitting walls, feeling more, and caring less.
Michael Urie was most recently seen on Broadway in Grand Horizons. He also recently starred in the Tony nominated revival ofTorch Song following his critically acclaimed performance in the off-Broadway production for which he received Lucille Lortel and Drama League nominations. He originated the role of Alex More in Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar Off-Broadway, on tour, and in London, for which he received the Drama Desk Award, Clarence Derwent Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, LA Drama Critics Award and nominations for the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards. And those are just some of the most recent highlights. Extensive list of award winning plays and musicals. Film: Lavender, He’s Way More Famous Than You (also directed), Thank You for Judging (co-director/exec. producer). On TV, you’ve seen him on Modern Family, Younger, The Good Fight, The Good Wife, Hot in Cleveland, Workaholics, Partners and of course, Ugly Betty. He also hosted four seasons of Logo’s Cocktails And Classics.
Michael Urie on IMDB
QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE
3:42 ~ “As soon as you think you're the best, then you're also not as good as somebody else…As long as you're thinking [there’s a] best and worst, then there's somebody better than you.” - KF
5:51 ~ “We all have an opportunity to become a new person every single day every single moment.” - KF
28:37 ~ “Our sense of purpose evolves and hopefully as we grow and get older and wiser, when we do the same stuff, it’s for more expansive reasons.” - KF
56:58 ~ “That's what happens in politics. We have ideas and we have feelings and then like our ideas and feelings become things that are real and people get elected and laws are made and injustice happens. And then we have more ideas and feelings about those things.” - KF
1:11:04 ~ “We storytellers, we are obsessed with each other. I don't mean other storytellers, I mean other humans. We find the human condition fascinating. We find great stories to be our life force and we want to keep telling them.”
1:17:54 ~ “It is not a level playing field, and the LGBTQIA community is very diverse… They're all lumped together often, all those letters and socio economic backgrounds and races and religions that are within that community often get lumped together… But it’s actually as diverse within that community… as the straight community.”