Quotes by Jasmine Cephas Jones - Page 1

It's amazing what art can do.
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Art
Amazing
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My mom lives on a mountain in the Catskills.
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Mountain
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It's inspiring to play a woman who stands up for herself.
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Inspiring
Herself
Stands
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My dad, he's a great father, but he's also been one of my mentors.
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Mentors
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My SAG card was from doing 'Blue Bloods,' an episode called 'Justice Served.'
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Card
Episode
Served
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When you're constantly stuck in your comfort zone, it means you're not growing.
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Comfort
Comfort Zone
Stuck
Zone
Constantly
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You have to try things! You have to jump off the edge and run through your fear.
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Edge
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Oh my God, when I auditioned for 'Hamilton,' I kept messing up the words to 'Say No To This.'
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Messing
Oh My God
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Sometimes, you go into an audition, and sometimes you're just not on it completely 100 percent.
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Audition
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I've lived in the same apartment since seventh grade. It's in my name now; my mom moved upstate.
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Apartment
Seventh
Upstate
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Whatever character I play, I want to inspire. I don't want to just be the girlfriend or be the wife.
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Inspire
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I would tell my younger self not to change for anyone. There's only one you, which makes you unique.
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Unique
Younger
Anyone
Makes
Tell
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I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist.
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Deeper
Myself Me Look
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That theater community that comes with acting and being in the theater is second nature to me. It's in my blood.
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Second Nature
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My style changes constantly, but I always love a baggy, ripped-up vintage jean with combat boots and a button-up shirt.
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Boots
Combat
Vintage
Love Always Vintage
Baggy
Jean
Shirt
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I took my dad's name to carry on his legacy because acting feels like something I'm meant to do. I want to try everything.
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Legacy
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High school at LaGuardia really was like 'Fame.' People would sing in the halls and look for ways to show off their talent.
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Halls
Show Off
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Writing 'Blue Bird' gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.
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Bird
Melodies
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There's no greater feeling than knowing that you helped in transforming someone and moving them through art. It's a beautiful thing.
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Greater
Moving
Transforming
Beautiful Thing
Helped
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I'm still a woman of color in this business and there are times when you still have to walk through extra doors and have extra things to prove.
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Doors
Extra
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I love being on Broadway and it's awesome and a dream come true but also it's about the work and making sure you're doing what you're doing right.
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Broadway
Love Work Doing
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I remember going on iTunes and 'Hamilton' was like the number one rap album, above like Fetty Wap, which is just impossible, like a Broadway cast album.
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Broadway
Itunes
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Sometimes you get the luxury of having a script for a really long time, and you can get to talk with the director or the producers, and evolve with the role.
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Luxury
Time Long Sometimes
Really Long Time
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Speaking my truth. I think that's the number one thing, man. That's my 2018 mantra. Speak your truth, because you hold all that in, it's going to destroy you.
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My Truth
Destroy
Mantra
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The first time I'm nominated for an Emmy and I get to share it with my dad who introduced me to theater at a very, very young age, it's a very full-circle type thing.
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Young Age
Time Age Dad
Emmy
Introduced
Nominated
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In 'Blindspotting' I play a girl from Oakland, I've got an accent, I've got long, '90s 'Poetic Justice' braids, and in 'Monsters and Men' I play a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn
Monsters
Oakland
Poetic
Accent
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You have these people that fight wars for their country, and then they come home and they need to attend to their mental health, and they can't get a job. That's a real thing.
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Mental Health
Attend
Real Thing
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I look up to my parents because they were both following their dreams. But I also know the heartache and I saw how hard it is and that you really, really gotta love what you do.
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Heartache
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I think, any of your audition songs should really be a song that you are so confident with and can pull out of your back pocket. Find a song that shows your entire range very quickly.
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Range
Audition
Pocket
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I went to school for singing, middle school at LaGuardia High School. Followed by Berkeley College of Music and afterwards I went to acting school at the Neighborhood Playhouse for Theater.
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Berkeley
Middle School
Neighborhood
Acting School
Afterwards
Followed
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When people are feeling a bunch of feelings or there's something happening within the world, a lot of people get healing through music, or a lot of people's go-to entertainment to find some answers or understand something.
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Healing
Music World People
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I grew up being that kid backstage doing my math homework and my father made sure I knew from everybody in the cast to the lighting people and to respect everyone in the theater and all the way down to the janitor. It's a part of my childhood. It's what I know really.
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Homework
Janitor
Lighting
Math
Backstage
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Ever since I did 'Hamilton' I'm really specific with the projects that I choose and the characters I choose and how they're portrayed. I was meaningful with my craft before, but I think after doing something that can change people, the direction in how I go within this business has changed too.
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Meaningful
Change Business People
Craft
Portrayed
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Hamilton' has changed my life in so many ways. I really do have a family from that show. The people that I shared that stage with every night- they mean so much to me and they're so special and so talented. I'm just a fan of every single one of them and it was an honor to share that stage with them.
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Every Night
Life Family Me
Shared
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My father would take me to auditions and put me in the room right in the corner because he was watching me; he couldn't get a babysitter. He'd be at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the LES until four in the morning, trying to tell his story and using his craft, but because he had a kid that didn't let him stop.
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Auditions
Babysitter
Cafe
Corner
Craft
Les
Poets
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