John Lloyd Young

When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created…

— John Lloyd Young

The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the…

— John Lloyd Young

I'm looking for smart friends all the time.

— John Lloyd Young

My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember her. I do…

— John Lloyd Young

I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends,…

— John Lloyd Young

During 'Jersey Boys,' I discovered one of the most rewarding ways to use your goodwill is to motivate fans and friends into…

— John Lloyd Young

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things…

— John Lloyd Young

I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain…

— John Lloyd Young

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway…

— John Lloyd Young

My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for…

— John Lloyd Young

It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill…

— John Lloyd Young

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

— John Lloyd Young

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined…

— John Lloyd Young

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's…

— John Lloyd Young

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I…

— John Lloyd Young

It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very…

— John Lloyd Young

I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music…

— John Lloyd Young

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

— John Lloyd Young

I was the first guest star asked to appear on 'Glee,' which we all know became huge.

— John Lloyd Young

I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to…

— John Lloyd Young

I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a…

— John Lloyd Young

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original…

— John Lloyd Young

I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation…

— John Lloyd Young

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

— John Lloyd Young

I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I…

— John Lloyd Young