Quotes by Okieriete Onaodowan - Page 1

I don't want to be anyone but me, but as a versatile as possible.
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Versatile
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I want to exercise all my muscles. I want to do plays. I want to do everything.
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Muscles
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When you have a platform and people listen, it's very important what you chose to say.
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Chose
Platform
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It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.
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Input
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That's how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.
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Device
Gimmick
Introduced
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It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.
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Clothing
Perceived
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We put so much of ourselves onstage and we work so hard, that I never get tired of people telling me 'you're awesome.'
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Work Tired Me
Onstage
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What we do in theatre is unlike film or any other medium. We can never really truly see the work that we made because we're in in.
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Unlike
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With 'Hamilton,' what's cool about the show is that even super-old white people come to see the show and hang on every word, it's that good.
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Hamilton
Cool Good People
Hang
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If people feel strongly and passionately about something, I'll let them speak strongly and passionately - I'm not going to tell them not to.
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People Feel Speak
Passionately
Strongly
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There's something to be said about seeing your face represented. There's just something really important about that. It just draws you in more.
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Draws
Face Your Important
Just Something
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You have to cultivate diversity for it to work, and I feel the 'Great Comet' didn't take the time to cultivate it. They didn't want to invest in it.
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Time Work Great
Comet
Invest
Cultivate
Work Time Great
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I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.
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American History
Pay Attention
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They're so effusive with their love... theatre fans. I'm a big comic book fan and there's a lot of parallels with them that they're just dedicated and loyal.
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Comic Book
Dedicated
Loyal
Parallels
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Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.
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Despair
Sorrow
Across
Bridge
Experiences
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The finances of a smash hit do not affect the actors in any way shape or form, it's the attention that comes with it. If it's a financial hit, then a lot of people are seeing it.
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Affect
Finances
Smash
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The great thing about 'Hamilton,' for me, is so many people have been exposed to and are more open to hip-hop and certain artists, despite the stigma that had before been attached to it.
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Despite
Exposed
Hamilton
Stigma
Great Me People
Attached
Great Thing
So Many People
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Hip-hop was born of people who did not have a voice. They were not heard. And those people exist and are a part of a framework of life... as long as that's true, people will gravitate to hip-hop.
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Framework
Life Long People
Gravitate
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I played Pierre, a white Russian aristocrat, and my co-lead was Denee Benton. Two black leads playing not black people - it was an important moment for the Broadway community to say diversity is possible and it's here.
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Broadway
Aristocrat
Leads
Pierre
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It meant the world to see kids excited about theatre. That's the great thing about 'Hamilton' for me is to see young people who wouldn't normally think theatre is cool being really excited about how it works and getting involved.
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Cool Great World
Great Thing
Normally
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Young kids who are out there who are upset and angry, they can watch this and realize that you can speak out through your pen and not just with rage and anger, and challenge the people who are telling you things that you don't like to hear, like 'Hamilton' did.
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Anger
Angry
Hamilton
Rage
Speak
Upset
Challenge
Watch
Hear
Pen
Realize
Telling
Young Kids
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Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won't succeed and take a knee. There's this rhetoric about being grateful and happy that you're getting paid for your art. We are told to put our own stuff aside, but doesn't everyone have a job they should just shut up and do?
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Broadway
Rhetoric
Shut Up
Aside
Let Go
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