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I'm the nap champion.
I grew up in Philadelphia.
Nothing lasts forever in my profession.
I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.
'Hamilton' has restored my faith in theater.
I'm glad things worked out the way they worked out.
What a casting director does is they're a connector.
I want to know that I'm gonna knock 'em dead every night.
I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.
I have to remind myself that it may never be this good again.
The bad guys have way more fun, in my opinion. 'Bad guys' in quotes.
I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.
All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.
I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.
It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.
We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!
I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.
You gotta prove yourself. I'm not above that. I will never be above that. Bring it!
We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.
I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.
You can't judge the people that you play anyway; you leave that for somebody else to do.
I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.
I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.
When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
I'm so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!
That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.
The time I spent in New York when I was 17 gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams with my whole heart.
There's this Frank Wildhorn tune 'Sarah' - it's not a widely known tune, but it's my favorite song to sing.
I kind of think we sort of subconsciously draw things into our lives, whatever we're trying to work through.
Until you make a name for yourself, they're like, 'Be a little more Denzel,' 'Be a little more Wesley Snipes.'
We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.
If I'm allowed it, I'm really looking forward to a little time on the couch and a little time on a beach in Brazil.
What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.
I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.
I started out with this 'La Boheme' fantasy, but as you get older, the 'La Boheme' fantasy becomes less sexy, believe me.
I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.
At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.
I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.
There are certainly people who have committed horrific, evil acts in the history of humanity. I don't think Aaron Burr's one of them.
None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.
If you're an open channel when you're onstage, if you're just a vessel, things are going to come out that are stored away deep in your DNA.
It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. 'Rent' was that place for me.
I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.
The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.
They're people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes' lives.
When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.
I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.