Quotes by Leslie Odom, Jr. - Page 2

I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I've learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I've dropped the 'young.'
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Young Man
Man Young Man Young
Dropped
Man Young Young Man
Half Years
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I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Long Term
Boring People
Merge
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As an artist, I'm very used to waking up and sort of not knowing what my day's going to be and not knowing where my next paycheck is going to come from.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Not Knowing
Waking
Paycheck
Waking Up
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'Rent' opened up my heart, my senses. I was never the same. I hadn't been back in that place in the same way since. 'Hamilton' put me back in that place.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Hamilton
Senses
Heart Me Way
Opened
Rent
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We're reminded yet again: we are stronger, we are smarter, we have more fun when we include each other - when we include as many perspectives as possible.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Fun
Smarter
Stronger
Again
Possible
Each
Include
Perspectives
Reminded
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To get even realer with you for a second, as a black actor, as a performer of color, I don't know how many more roles like Aaron Burr are gonna come along for me.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Aaron
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Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Capable
Wonderful Things
Alexander
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I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Awards
Beautiful People
Bills
Grammy
Tony
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You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Citizen
Light World People
Light World Shine
Help People
Shine
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I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Lightning
Bolt
Life God Art
Ella
Examples
Fitzgerald
Purest
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None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Consistently
Guy
Judged
Perfect
Perfect Man
Villain
Worst
Act
Judge
Man
He
Day
Dude
None
Wants
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I had no vision of me being a part of that show ever. But I was committed to being the first super-fan of 'The Hamilton Mixtape' that there ever was. I was in love with this thing.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Committed
Hamilton
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You hear a song like 'Wait For It,' you hear a song like 'Dear Theodosia' - if you get one of those songs in a musical - one - it's worth dropping everything to sing that one song.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Dear
Dropping
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You gotta love this thing. Whatever you choose to pursue - medicine, law, writing, you have to love it. You study it, you eat it, you drink it, you try it, you do it, you love it in every way.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Medicine
Pursue
Study
Try
Choose
Whatever
Gotta
To Love
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I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Every Night
Juliet
Favorite Movies
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
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I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Excellence
Gifted
Granted
Philadelphia
Time Where Culture
All My Friends
Talented
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The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Our World
Shaped
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Donny Hathaway's 'For All We Know' is the song that I've sung the longest. It is a beautiful song about living in the moment and appreciating this very second. That is the song I did for my 'Rent' audition.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Song
Living
Appreciating
Did
Audition
Longest
Moment
Rent
Second
Sung
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It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Color
Combat
Excellent
Linked
Narrative
Stage
Fed
Images
Inexorably
Innately
Political Statement
Statement
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My dad was always in sales. My mom had a heart for the ages. Worked in recreation, doing rehabilitation in nursing homes. Very nice, practical folks who were very proud of me but had no inclination toward the stage in any way.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Dad
Mom
Folks
Heart
Inclination
Nice
Nursing
Proud
Recreation
Rehabilitation
Stage
Way
Mom Dad Always
Dad Always Heart
Very
Had
Always
Me
Ages
Any
Who
Doing
Were
Dad Mom Me
Dad Mom Heart
Homes
Practical
Sales
Toward
Worked
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I'm in no way running from 'Hamilton' or its success or these beautiful songs that I've been blessed to be able to be the one to introduce them. I certainly won't be the last to sing them, but to be the first, I feel very lucky.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Blessed
Be The First
Introduce
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I've been fortunate in my life. It hasn't been easy, but there has been a focus on the positive, and it has reverberated. Eventually, the outlook mirrors itself back to you in the friends you have, in the partner that you choose.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Friends
Positive
Easy
Focus
Fortunate
Mirrors
Outlook
Positive Life Focus
Life Focus My Life
Positive Life My Life
Choose
Itself
Eventually
Partner
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I've spent a long time learning my way around a stage as an actor, but this I don't know as well. Humbly, I'm excited to get with a band and perform regularly as an artist and see what I can learn and how I can grow in that space.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Humbly
Regularly
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Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become a huge star, but he was in our class in freshman year. I remember Josh was this nerdy kid in a turtleneck with a voice from heaven.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Class
Freshman
Freshman Year
Heaven
Huge
Josh
Leaving
Nerdy
Remember
Voice
Year
Star
Ended
Griffin
Huge Star
Turtleneck
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I know it's hard for people to imagine a time when 'Hamilton' wasn't 'Hamilton,' but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn't make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Describing
Time People Know
Little Thing
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I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anything like that.' I didn't know it was possible.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Remember When
Elevator
Loft
Opened
Rent
Threw
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I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, they got me a tape recorder that I used to walk around my life with. And there was something about recording and then hearing myself back.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Tape
Recorder
Tape Recorder
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What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say, 'How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?'
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Environmental
Disaster
Mile
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I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Decorate
Dressing
Dressing Room
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I can only imagine what the show would have meant to me as a 16- or 17-year-old. I know what 'Rent' meant to me in my life, how that show changed the course of my life, and we can only hope that 'Hamilton' will have the same effect on a few kids.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Life Hope Me
Rent
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I've done a lot of translation in TV, and I can do it. I'm trained to do it. I know how to inject a certain amount of my naturalness into that and where I come from into those things, but it helps if somebody's writing with my experience in mind.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Trained
Translation
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I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Permission
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People are coming to you at their most vulnerable; they're showing you the parts of themselves that they're afraid to show: the parts that they're not so sure about, not so secure in. And so it's a really holy profession I think, teaching. If you do it right, it can change somebody's life.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Holy
Profession
Secure
Life Change People
Showing
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There was a lot of the 'Hamilton' experience that was like a locomotive. It was a hurricane, so the apartment often looked like a hurricane. There were clothes and shoes all over. We were getting more things in than we had room for. We had to figure out how to make space for all the blessings and goodness coming toward us.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
Goodness
Blessings
Hurricane
Locomotive
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