Ethan Slater

Wrestling is a small, intimate sport.

— Ethan Slater

Tom Kenny is awesome.

— Ethan Slater

I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.

— Ethan Slater

I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

— Ethan Slater

I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.

— Ethan Slater

We all should be so lucky to be as optimistic as SpongeBob.

— Ethan Slater

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

— Ethan Slater

I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.

— Ethan Slater

I was a wrestler in high school, and that was a pretty big part of my life.

— Ethan Slater

I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.

— Ethan Slater

I would say that SpongeBob, at his core, is this optimistic, loving best friend. Getting to play him every day has sort…

— Ethan Slater

That's what I really focused on in school - straight drama - and I would love to get an opportunity to do…

— Ethan Slater

I look a lot like my mom. I'm the only one of my siblings with red hair, and she had bright red…

— Ethan Slater

We're all sort of aware what 'SpongeBob the Musical' could be in the hands of the wrong people.

— Ethan Slater

The magnitude of being able to make my Broadway debut as SpongeBob in 'SpongeBob SquarePants' really only started to hit me when…

— Ethan Slater

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

— Ethan Slater

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

— Ethan Slater

In my senior year of high school, I was doing a dance with a bunch of friends for the talent show, and…

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When I'm in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I'm in the presence of something really special with artists working…

— Ethan Slater

SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he's a little naive, maybe, but he's so optimistic and is able to…

— Ethan Slater

One of the things I've found about SpongeBob's movement style is that, in addition to being animated and sort of stretching and…

— Ethan Slater

The process of finding my voice as SpongeBob was to start by watching what Tom Kenny did, trying to do an impression…

— Ethan Slater

The only reason to do a 'SpongeBob' on Broadway is if it's gonna bring something new to the brand, something new to…

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In the room, when I'm playing SpongeBob, I'm optimistic and I'm happy, and I smile in the face of those who are…

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I feel very proud of everyone I've worked with on 'SpongeBob' because they're all brilliant artists working at the top of their…

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I've gotten to meet Sara Bareilles a couple of times. I'm just a such a massive fan of hers, from her albums…

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I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.

— Ethan Slater

One of my favorite pieces of fan mail was a gift that I got. It was a jar filled with handwritten nice…

— Ethan Slater

You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.

— Ethan Slater

Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I…

— Ethan Slater

I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of…

— Ethan Slater

When the show starts, I am in my SpongeBob stance, and I walk like SpongeBob, and the first step that I take,…

— Ethan Slater

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

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell…

— Ethan Slater

Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.

— Ethan Slater

To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.

— Ethan Slater

I start with a pretty yoga-based warm-up. I do jumping jacks and burpees, and I do a lot of dynamic stretching.

— Ethan Slater

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

— Ethan Slater

I would say I'm the normal level of 'SpongeBob' fan, which is that it's been out since I was a kid, and…

— Ethan Slater

It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something…

— Ethan Slater