Quotes by Christopher Jackson - Page 1

I get goosebumps going out on stage every night.
Christopher Jackson /
Every Night
Goosebumps
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Tupac was the first artist that I really related to.
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Related
Tupac
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Hamilton' doesn't compare to anything I've ever done.
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Compare
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There's only one Broadway and that's in New York City.
Christopher Jackson /
Broadway
New York City
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I'd like to think of myself as an ambassador for Broadway.
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Broadway
Myself Think Like
Ambassador
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Broadway is at its best when it represents as many people as possible.
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Broadway
Best People Possible
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I approach most every job that I do with some sort of team ideal involved.
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Ideal
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Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.
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Understanding
Awry
Goes
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I've joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.
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Finance
Habit
Tv Show
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There's never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.
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Guts
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I was an extra on 'New York Undercover.' I played a person at a homeless shelter.
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Homeless
Shelter
Undercover
Extra
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I get great joy from being a part of a play that doesn't take itself too seriously.
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Great Joy
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Every day is different. I've only ever been happy spinning a thousand plates at once.
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Plates
Spinning
Thousand
Day Every Day Happy
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One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.
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Funeral
Hymns
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With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of.
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Response
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I'm used to multitasking... I like it that way. I like when things are busy. I strive off the pace.
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Busy
Multitasking
Pace
Strive
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Well, I went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy - I went to the conservatory - for acting.
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Conservatory
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The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.
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Civil Rights
Donald Trump
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I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.
Christopher Jackson /
Broadway
Waking
Waking Up
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The reach of 'Hamilton' never surprises me. It's always a delight to meet someone who's seen the show.
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Delight
Always Me Never
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Being a part of the 'Hamilton' family has been the most thrilling and rewarding experience of my career.
Christopher Jackson /
Hamilton
Thrilling
Rewarding
Rewarding Experience
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If you can save one body, and one heart and soul and mind, then it's a worthy cause and a worthy venture.
Christopher Jackson /
Heart And Soul
Venture
Worthy
Heart Soul Mind
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I've been playing team sports since I could walk... so anything sports-related story is always fun for me.
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Team Sports
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I've been telling people that 'Hamilton' is very much a glimpse of what it's like to be inside Lin's brain.
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Glimpse
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I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.
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Funeral
Occasional
Homes
Owned
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I consider it a great honor to be able to step on stage every night and do a show that people have paid money to see.
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Every Night
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Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis as hip-hop.
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Genesis
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I love television, and I get so spoiled because I'm coming from such an amazing ensemble in 'Hamilton' to such an amazing ensemble on 'Bull.'
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Ensemble
Spoiled
Bull
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If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and hears something back.
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Finds
Hears
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I've never wanted to do just one thing. I don't have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on one thing - what's in front of me.
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Attention Span
Just One
Focus Me Never
Just One Thing
Span
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It instantly felt like, for me as an actor that I justified, I was able to draw a direct relation between Chris the actor and being George Washington.
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Justified
Relation
Me Being Like
Chris
Instantly
Me Actor Being
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I pay attention when people get manicures and pedicures. I've always noticed it as a guy. When my wife goes to get her nails done, I'm always very aware of it.
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Nails
Pay Attention
Noticed
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To me there's nothing more fascinating than a roomful of young people just trying to look at the world and seeing how they can affect it as they're being affected by it.
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Fascinating
World Me Look
Affect
Look World Me
Roomful
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Hamilton' is as hard a job as anything I've ever done. It's equally rewarding, but it's very taxing. It's just so hard physically and emotionally to do it, and it just empties you out.
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Emotionally
Equally
Rewarding
Taxing
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The emergence of social media in the Broadway fan's life - it's sort of a serendipitous thing for us and for a lot of shows. I always wonder what 'Rent' would've felt like through that lens.
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Broadway
Emergence
Life Social Media Media
Lens
Rent
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Because for every Lin Miranda performance, there's some young person out there saying, 'Oh, I can write something like this.' Or, 'I didn't think that this was possible.' It opens a world of possibilities.
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Opens
Possibilities
Young Person
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One of the beautiful parts about Hamilton is it takes these figures that we've always revered as figures of antiquity and there's real blood flowing through their veins. There's real conflict. There's real life.
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Antiquity
Conflict
Figures
Veins
Life Beautiful Always
Revered
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If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there's always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of things that people want to see, while at the same time pushing the form along.
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Broadway
Periods
Producers
Pushing
Time History Always
Time History Look
Delivered
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The idea that you can make one speech or one movie, or express a thought or show the injustice of a particular time, you hope that it resonates, and you hope that resonance will last. You hope that it would create change.
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Injustice
Resonance
Change Hope Time
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I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who knew I performed, singing in church, she said, 'You know we have a speech team,' and she handed me a copy of 'The Crucible.'
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Crucible
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Copy
Handed
Performed
Pro
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When I was doing 'In the Heights,' I was the co-music supervisor for 'The Electric Company' on PBS, so I was writing songs all day, doing the show, staying up until 3 A. M. Writing more songs, recording demos in the intermission in my dressing room.
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Demos
Electric
Intermission
Pbs
Staying
Day Doing More
All Day
Dressing
Dressing Room
Heights
Recording
Supervisor
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You can make the most powerful movie ever made, and you hope that whatever resonates gets taken home and survives the night. You also hope that, the next morning, it gives someone pause before they would act on their more base instincts, or out of habit.
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Habit
Most Powerful
Instincts
Next Morning
Pause
Resonates
Survives
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I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion has moved through modern times and how it shaped everything, from overall aesthetic to design to how it's influenced the great artists of our time.
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Aesthetic
Amazing Things
Modern Times
Our Time
Time History Great
Influenced
Shaped
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I came into the business where Will Smith was pretty much taking over the world - or defending it, if you will. He was showing success on so many different fronts - television, recording, movies. So that was really my prototype in terms of looking at the business and seeing where you fit in.
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Fronts
Prototype
Defending
Showing
Smith
Will Smith
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I took a trip to D.C. before the Off Broadway production started, and one of the things that was really telling is that Hamilton has probably the smallest statue in all of the Mall area, and yet he's got the greatest monument of any of them because we're all walking around with him in our pockets.
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Broadway
Monument
Pockets
Smallest
Mall
Statue
Trip
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That brick that you're standing on, that foundation that you're standing on, there's a brick in there that was placed by someone you never knew, sort of a faceless possibility, but you're there now. You have an opportunity to put your own brick in there. That's what it feels like we're doing with 'Hamilton'
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Opportunity
Faceless
Feels
Hamilton
Possibility
Standing
Brick
Placed
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