Broadway is at its best when it represents as many people as possible.
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.
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.
The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.
I know it's going to sound cliche, but we're all artists just trying to tell a story. Whether it's on television or whether it's in a theater, you just hope that people are moved.
Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.
I get goosebumps going out on stage every night.
Hamilton' doesn't compare to anything I've ever done.
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'
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.
I don't ever take a day 'off.' If I can't work, I won't work.
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.'
I love to write.
With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of.
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.
I was an extra on 'New York Undercover.' I played a person at a homeless shelter.
Well, I went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy - I went to the conservatory - for acting.
Well, theater is kind of my life blood. Not kind of - it is my life blood.
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.
Every day is different. I've only ever been happy spinning a thousand plates at once.
